First museum trip of 2018
I haven’t been to the Met or MoMA in some time. Between bad weather and bad health, I just haven’t been able to get into New York. I finally talked […]
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Sisyphus Stones and Good Fences
A Mystery Solved: Why the ‘Sisyphus Stones’ Rise and Tumble – from the NY Times. This sounds like something i would have liked to see. The article is from September, […]
Extended Thanksgiving weekend laziness
All this month, I’ve been tossing ideas around in my head about productive things I could do with my four-day Thanksgiving weekend. And now it’s Sunday, and I’ve done very […]
A nice apartment
From An Eye-Popping Mid-Century Apartment Filled With Pollocks, Klines, and de Koonings: Ben Heller bought Jackson Pollock’s One, Number 31, 1950, when he lived in an apartment with lower ceilings. […]
Making the best of it
I decided to take the train into NYC today to see the new Rodin exhibit at the Met. But I hit a couple of snags with that. (This post probably […]
photos from NYC today
I went into NYC today and took a handful of random photos. I decided to do something I haven’t done in a while: upload them to Flickr and create an […]
MoMA renovation
MoMA is in the midst of a fairly major renovation project. The last couple of times I went, things were pretty confusing. A lot of stuff was under construction. Here’s […]
A busy day in New York
I took a trip into New York City today to see a few things. First, an overdue trip to the Met to check out Seurat’s Circus Sideshow. As a young […]
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, […]
Art and Literature for Troubled Times
OK, that post title might be a little pretentious. But I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff on the internet over the last month about art and literature, with relation […]