Metropolitan Museum

New look for the Met

hopefully coming soon...

bloginfo: taken from Design Boom Daily, www.info@designboom.com
blognote: 'spanning four blocks, a new public plaza and fountains will parallel the front facade of the landmark museum, introducing over 100 trees to shade new york city's hardscape'

one more step accomplished...

My visa arrived today!

I leave on January 12th for Rangon, Myanmar.

Metropolitan Museum

lattice work in the Arab collection

Took a day trip to NYC and spent most of the time in the MET. The new Arab Culture section is quite overwhelming; needs a whole day to see everything.

DeMuth 'Number 5'

Another special exhibition was the Steiglitz Collection and this was one of my favorites. That is aside from favoites from Georgia O'Keeffe [Steiglitz' wife].

bloginfo: Also visited the Frick. Beautiful building and great collection. Caught a few Picasso drawings from the special exhibition.
blognote: Don't miss the video explaining the background of the building.

a day with[out] art...

Visited Real Art Ways this afternoon to engage in any of today's events. This is AIDS Awareness Day. The place was deserted but I did watch parts of the documentary in the video gallery. I had missed Aricoco's performance last month so was able to see her construction. Being alone in the gallery with  her home/cocoon/trailer was a  great experience.

news flash...

Looks like I will be going to Burma in January. Details forthcoming...

DIRT Salon Opening...

Anne Cubberly

Anne Cubberly

Gabriela Galarza-Block

Went to the opening of the DIRT Salon in Hartford and it was amazing. What a great new place for artists [and onlookers like me]. Met so many people I knew. There was food [a great looking paella] and liquor [had a nice glass of vinho verde] but room after room of studio, work space, gathering space...

bloginfo: Invite called it the DIRT Flirt!

blognote: Keep up the good work and keep inviting me over!

Truk Talk

Trukese artifacts

Gave a 'Truk Talk' or 'Chuuk Chat' this morning at the monthly Men's Coffee Social here at CVOC. The presentation was very well received with a full audience in the dining room. Many questions at the end of the talk. This was, of course, about my four years living in Truk in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in Micronesia, 1963 to 1967.

bloginfo: Truk was the name of the island district when I lived there. Now after joining the Federated States of Micronesia it is called its original name of Chuuk.

blognote: CVOC is Covenant Village of Cromwell where I have lived for the past three years.