Monday, May 30, 2011

NYC, 5/30/11


Today we actually went to a museum rather than just buying sheets and other necessities at
Jack's 99cents store and taking the dogs to Jemmy's Dog Run at Madison Square Park (which are both wonderful in their own ways, don't get me wrong - especially MSP right now with the Jaume Plensa sculpture).

Took the #6 up to the Met to see the Alexander McQueen exhibition (click on Selected Objects and Video to get a taste - and if you can go, GO) which far exceeded my expectations. Partly because I really didn't know what to expect, and partly because when I first saw the line, I wanted to turn right around and return on a less crowded day. But the line moved fast and so we waited, in a gallery of paintings and sculptures that, due to popularity of the exhibition and the need for crowd control, had become a mere hallway to wait in line in to get to the McQueen. Most people, including myself, weren't really giving the art its due.


This poor teenage kid was so tired from waiting in line, and so concerned about carpal tunnel from playing a video game on his iPhone, that he was forced to lean his arm against the plinth of a beautiful marble bust. And no, his friend is not admiring said bust by photographing it with her iPhone. She, too, is playing a video game. They did interact with each other, once, to report on what island they had gotten to. The woman in the painting looks on in horror, but frozen in oil and time, she can only murmur silently, "Kids these days."

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Highs and Lows


Wow, what a week in my tiny little nano-speck of the universe.

The low point: Boo's near-death from asphyxiation, followed by emergency surgery for laryngeal paralysis, followed by pneumonia, resulting in a 4-night hospital stay. Still waiting for test results that may or may not shed light on why the hell.

Boo, before

Boo, after (but recovering)

The high points: Boo coming home..and us moving in to our NYC apartment. We are still in Beacon, too, so dare I call it a "pied-à-terre"? It's really James' studio but I'll be allowed to visit sometimes...

Why, you may wonder, an apartment in NYC if Beacon is so damned great? More on that another time.


Photo by Lucia M.

NYC, Sunday, May 1st, 2011

Other miscellaneous events: Nursery visit on a perfect spring day for big trees for the Roundhouse project; tick bite (from said nursery; fingers crossed for no Lyme); me getting published; James selling a bunch of vintage silk scarves and other items on eBay, and getting a nice write-up in 'The' magazine about the latest Richard Levy Gallery show; two great movies - The Parking Lot Movie and Waste Land; the waning of the cherry blossoms at Dia:Beacon, and garden growth explosion - including lilacs opening, ahhhhh - here at 55; and all of the usual quotidian stuff of life.

Cherry blossoms through Robert Irwin windows, Dia:Beacon

NYC, Sunday, May 1st, 2011

Now hoping for - perhaps even expecting - a calmer week.

Here's to health, love, and new beginnings.