Roman
and Ida stopped in NYC on their way home to Berlin after a conference
in Copper Mountain Colorado. We went down to the lower west side to
meet them and check out some of the art galleries there. We just missed
the downtown train at the Pelham Parkway subway station across from
our house.
We
changed trains at Grand Central station so Sue could do a little shopping
The
ceiling in the main hall is painted like the night sky and inlaid with
tiny lights that look like stars
Sue,
Ida and Roman on the roof of the apartment they were staying in, the Hudson
river is in the background
The
view uptown (Empire state on the left, Chrysler in the center
We
stopped at a street fair on the way up to the gallery district
Roman
and I went for the chicken pitas and Sue and Ida got sweet potato fries
The
galleries are sprinkled over a square mile or so, tucked in between machine
shops, taxi garages and wharehouses
This
sardine can collection by David Ireland was one of our favorites....
Not...
We
did really enjoy these photographs documenting the folk art of the women
of India by Jyoti Bhatt and Raghav Kaneria
I
wanted to buy this one from the ontogenesis collection by Joo Hyun Kang
but someone got to it first
-
Ida and Sue tried to convince me that this was a better choice anyway, but I didn't think it would go with our couch
We
weren't too sure about the art here, but it was unanimous that the gallery
would make a great apartment
The
taxi garage across the street from the "apartment gallery"
Turned
out that this remodeled body shop wasn't a gallery but a mens clothing
store. The clothes looked suspiciously like they had been fashioned
from unsuccessful abstract art canvases, and the price tags seem more
appropriate for something you would keep in a vault than wear to the
circus (which is, I'm almost certain, the only place you could wear
them and fit in)
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This sound and light installation was one of Ida's favorites. She found it calming while Sue called it disturbing
The
Empire cafe supposedly has the best burgers in town, but we just stopped
for coffee
View
south towards the financial district
In
the evening we walked up to a small cinema to see a film about women in
an ultra-orthodox jewish community. It was called Kadosh and is worth
missing unless you need to readjust the perspective on your life by recognizing
how bad some people have it.