Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Weekend In New York City
Michele, Sarah, and I had a great visit with our daughter Amy in NYC over Memorial Weekend. We spent most of it just walking and sitting at restaurants and talking. It was fun.
On Sunday I had a change to see the Whitney Biennial. It was the final day of the exhibition. The show was excellent. Almost all of it was interesting without being too weird. I especially enjoyed the paintings and photographs by new artists. They also had some of David Hockney's work which I enjoyed. The best part, however, was a small room with hundreds of suspended tiny colored lights that looked like stars. A guard let you into the room and then closed the door behind you so you are completely alone in the space. You walk out onto a small platform and the rest of the room, including the ceiling, walls, and floor were covered with a reflective material. It was as if you were taking a bath in light.
My family gave me a membership to the Whitney as a birthday present. So this was the first time that I had an opportunity to use it. There was a line that wrapped around the building to get in but I got to go directly to the front with my new card. It felt great to belong to the same museum where Edward Hopper's art is on permanent display and where his wife donated his work when he died.
Speaking of Hopper, there is a large retrospective of his work going on right now at the Tate Museum in London. Please read a review of the show by Laura Comming. It is the best piece I have ever seen on his art and that is saying quite a bit since I've read much about my favorite artist. If things work out our family will see the show this summer.
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On Sunday I had a change to see the Whitney Biennial. It was the final day of the exhibition. The show was excellent. Almost all of it was interesting without being too weird. I especially enjoyed the paintings and photographs by new artists. They also had some of David Hockney's work which I enjoyed. The best part, however, was a small room with hundreds of suspended tiny colored lights that looked like stars. A guard let you into the room and then closed the door behind you so you are completely alone in the space. You walk out onto a small platform and the rest of the room, including the ceiling, walls, and floor were covered with a reflective material. It was as if you were taking a bath in light.
My family gave me a membership to the Whitney as a birthday present. So this was the first time that I had an opportunity to use it. There was a line that wrapped around the building to get in but I got to go directly to the front with my new card. It felt great to belong to the same museum where Edward Hopper's art is on permanent display and where his wife donated his work when he died.
Speaking of Hopper, there is a large retrospective of his work going on right now at the Tate Museum in London. Please read a review of the show by Laura Comming. It is the best piece I have ever seen on his art and that is saying quite a bit since I've read much about my favorite artist. If things work out our family will see the show this summer.
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