This morning I have insomnia so it seems an appropriate moment to reflect back on my recent New York trip. I had the great opportunity to be with good friends and see lots of wonderful art.
Brooklyn----------------------------
Delights of the pallete for the eyes and tummy.
Off the 2,3 and we previewed our after breakfast mint.
The building was older than expected.
Glass pyramids flocked the front and children huddled around the fountain mesmerized by the drama of droplets
Suspended in air.
Tran and I marched to our first stop; Tom's restaurant.
We were pleasantly rewarded for our early morning arrival.
Sat down just as they began to line up.
Phantasmagorical interior design brought to mind a Juergen Teller photo shoot.
I might as well have been dressed in Marc Jacobs and Tran in Louis Vuitton for good measure.
Posing with our pancakes.
She became the World's Greatest Grandfather and I a blank coffee cup.
We paid up for our wonderful fantasy world and scurried back to the Mint.
Outside we waited patiently for our view of art by Kiki Smith, Judy Chicago and fashion designs from the past.
We were rewarded with greatness-- The Brooklyn Museum's permanent installation of Judy Chicago (and multiple other artisans) was well handled and good to see after years of seeing slides of the work in my feminist art history classes. I also rather enjoyed seeing the way that Smith's work moved through narrative within the gallery spaces just around the Dinner Party. Suiting for a printmaker to utilize the multiple as a way of story telling gallery to gallery and juxtaposed around the feminist work that outlines the forgotten women who shaped our history. I loved it. Life Birth Death all in one experience.
Thanks Brooklyn! Perhaps now I sleep.
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