Escher @NBMAA

Made a visit to the Escher exhibit at the New Britain Museum of American Art today. This was my second time there but saw things I had missed earlier. The video of the 'Snakes' was intriguing. 

The show closes on November 14th, so go see it. The Escher that I liked in the Gift Shop was $4700; signed and matted but not in my price level.

bloginfo: Read the Hartford Advocate review here.
blognote: Also looked at the Nantucket Basket show which opened today. Small room, big exhibit. Didn't know that baskets could get so intricate and complicated.

artful afternoon...

Spent the afternoon looking at some good artwork.

First we went to the Hartford Public Library to see Kyle Andrew Phillips work. Read the review from the Hartford Courant. I saw his show at the Charter Oak Cultural Center earlier and really liked one of the pieces, Rust#1. So I have made arrangements to purchase it and will get it in January after the library show closes. I am looking forward to adding this to my collection.


Then on to the Wadsworth Atheneum to see the 'American Moderns on Paper' show.
Many of my favorite artists were on display there: Marin, O'Keeffe, Dalí, Tanguy and Noguchi. The show was a lot larger than I had expected  and showed the importance to American modernists of working on paper rather than on canvas.

blognote: See lunch review here for the Akropolis Deli.

The Philip Johnson Glass House

We visited the Glass House in New Canaan today. It was a smooth ride down the Merritt to exit 38. Parked in the Park Street lot with a lot of quarters but it worked out well. Met at the Visitor Center at 199 Elm Street and had a brief intro. The shuttle bus ride was about five minutes long. The tour was fantastic! The main house is, of course, the big attraction but both the art and sculpture galleries are not to be missed. The weather was beautiful and the foliage was prime time.

Then back to the visitor center, the parking lot and [with some additional quarters] off to a super lunch at Le Pain Quotidien.

Haight-Brown Vineyard

Foliage Trip to Litchfield, CT

and Haight-Brown Vineyard

Went for a nice long ride through Litchfield today to view the foliage on this sunny day, stopped for lunch and then went to a wine-tasting at the Haight-Brown Vineyard. We tasted nine wines; four of which we liked. These were two Chardonnay [one oaked and the other aluminum vatted], a dry Rosé and a 'Picnic Red' which was a varietal with Shiraz. 

The Wine Room upstairs had a decent selection of wine for sale by the bottle and a wine bar for wine by the glass. The view from the balcony over the vineyard was beautiful and we will come back next year on our own.