Hard to believe it's already time for our annual late fall pilgrimage to NYC. It seems as though it was a cold week everywhere. To be a little closer to the theatre district we stayed in the garment district, but next time will likely stay in Chelsea, as the High Line now extends all the way up to 34th.
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| View of the Hudson from our window -- 34th and 8th |
The show, "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," lived up to the recommendation from friends Alex and David, and we are still singing (in a sinister D'ysquith accent) "I don't understand the poor."
We saw some mammoth and quite different works by Murikami and Twombly, at The Gogosian and Morgan, respectively. In between, there was a gem of a Picasso exhibit at the Pace, highlighting the late works inspired by his relationship with Jaqueline Roque.
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| Takashi Murakami at the Gagosian |
In between, of course, there was a bit of shopping, which meant riding the old wooden escalators in the midtown Macy's.
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| Last wooden elevators in NYC |
Oh yeah, I almost forgot that we also went to the Met, where highlights included Thomas Hart Benton's "America Today" mural (continuing the theme of massive works), El Greco and Cubism exhibits and a replica of the living room from the The Frank Lloyd Wright designed Little house in Wayzata. The Madame Cezanne exhibit was an interesting, if somewhat more dour, take on the marital relationship than the Picasso exhibit.
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| The ornate Morgan Library |
The more you travel, the more connected experiences become. For example, it was just a month ago in Henderson, KY, that we first saw examples of Audobon's elephant folios, the giant first editions of his iconic Birds of America paintings. As we were strolling on Madison we stepped into a small gallery that was preparing to auction off single pages for $10,000-60,000 each!
