New York Botanic Garden
Rebecca Belmore- ishkode
Jason Rhoades- Sutters Mill
Rose Salane -63,000 Attempts at Circulation
James Little-
Denyse Thomasos- Displaced Burial
Whitney Biennial
BBG
BBG
BBG
BBG
The Highline
The Highline
Fried Chicken Sandwich- Banter
cheeseburger- Jolene
Tonkatsu Ramen- Momosan
Yuja Wang – Carnegie Hall
The R train- the night of the subway shooting
R Train
I guess Betty thought her squeaky pizza needed a wash
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
Gallery 211- Met
Gallery 217- Met
217
217
217
218
218
entrance to 217
  • The Orchid Show at NYBG was as spectacular as always.
  • Whitney Biennial- as always happens when I go to to the biennial- there are some things that I love, and some things I wonder why they are considered art. There was one piece that I liked very much, but I was not able to capture in on film- All is all, an interesting mix of new American art. The one thing that the biennial does teach me is that art is very much a business- there is very little that is meant to be a backdrop to someone’s décor. These pieces are made to be displayed in gallery settings, unless you happen to have a room where you can set up a projection screen or build a house. Speaking of which- Sutter’s Mill- which sees the artist build and take down a structure is very powerful to see in person. I do wonder if some collector buys the artist when they buy the work. Sort of counterintuitive…
  • Apparently the Statue of Liberty at the Highline is supposed to wear masks- I will try to get there for an update…
  • Lots of awesome comfort food this week! fried chicken, burger and ramen- these are my go to comfort foods-
  • If you like passionate piano- Yuja Wang is for you- She is just so powerful at the keys…
  • The night we went to Carnegie Hall was the night of the subway shooting. We took the bus uptown, but on the way home we took the R train, which runs alongside the N train where the attack occurred. It was a little jarring to see the station closed sign on the interior subway map.
  • Winslow Homer- Crosscurrents at the Met. Ok- I can see that Homer is a good artist deserving of a retrospective. However, I just can’t get that excited over his work. Well organized exhibit though.
  • I can’t tell you how much I love Galleries 217 and 218 at the Met. My pictures do not do justice to the beauty and serenity and loveliness that are these galleries. This has always been one of my favorite spots at the Met.
  • As I continue to seeing the Met in numeric gallery order, I find myself in a weird spot. From galleries 209- 232, these exhibits are technically “special” but they have a lot of new rotations, so I have been through these galleries quite often over the past ten months. However, as I now actually remember a lot of the more static pieces, I am going to go a bit more briskly through these galleries until I get to numbers I haven’t seen much of. It sort of goes against my somewhat literal tendencies, but I am trying…

39 thoughts on “What Inspired Me: 4/17/22”

  1. That duck-looking piece at the Whitney Biennial made me laugh.

    I saw Yuja Wang for the second time last fall. I don’t think she was feeling well that night, as she didn’t have the same flair that she had when I saw her the first time a few years ago. Still a good concert, though.

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  7. What a wonderful post! You brought so many intriguing things into your life this week. I am definitely not an art critic, but I liked the Winslow Homer pieces you photographed. I could see putting any of them in my house. The giant test tube turkey…not so much! He does make me smile though.

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  13. Displaced Burial is an abstract graphic visual of what’s happening to so many in this current world. Sigh.
    About your flower photos: I have one of a mass planting of purple tulips from one of your past posts…I don’t remember which one, but may I use it on a future blog post of my own? It will definitely have attribution to yourself and a link to your blog in general, just not the specific blog post where you pubbed it.

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