Top Ten Sights, NY early Nov.
10. Twyla Tharp’s woefully misconceived Bob Dylan jukebox musical, which should have closed before I'd ordered nonrefundable tickets. Proof positive that sometimes when critics say a show stinks, it really does.
9. The NY Times clip of Robert Shelton’s absolutely perfect and prescient rave review of one of Dylan's early gigs, in the fall of 1961; in an exhibition at the Morgan Library. (J.P. must be, like, rolling over, stoned, in his grave.)
8. All the ornamental cabbages, Brassica oleracea, purplish, yellowish, whitish, set in planters, around sidewalk trees, on window ledges, on stoops.
7. "Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art," at the China Institute, http://www.chinainstitute.org/gallery/current.html#books
6. Whistler’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, at the Met, on loan from Boston
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Americans_in_Paris/obj.asp?gal=4&i=11
5. The leather-covered bannisters at Hermes, Madison & 62nd
4. The austere front desk, backed by a wall of artists’ binders (for slides) and an equally black-clad attendant, at Mary Boone Gallery, Chelsea. Of course, nobody's used slides for ages, but who doesn't love the intimidation factor?
3. Among the iconic photos of shootings & executions (Rudy/Oswald, the Vietnamese general, Capa's Spanish Civil War) in the hallway leading to MoMA’s “Manet and the Execution of the Maximilian” http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/Manet/index.htm an Associated Press photo shows the execution of three German spies; they were soldiers (disguised as civilians) captured while doing reconnaissance near the Meuse, probably in late 1944, but not shot, according to the caption, until May 1945, that is to say, in a last-minute rush, because the war was almost over (VE Day was May 8th). Manet painted explosions at the tips of his firing squad's rifles; the bullets have not yet hit. In the AP photo, an American officer pins a small, white target on the chest of a spy.
2. A film clip of a frail Auguste Renoir with dealer Ambrose Vollard, at the Met.
1. The Empire State Building. No kidding, from Madison & 34th: with the sun behind me, I looked west and noticed, for the first time, the gleaming metal molding strips that run up the sides of the windows (btw, in the photo, that ain't me, babe):
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ottoni/pictures/12_2003_nyc/Gui_Empire_State_Building.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ottoni/pictures/12_2003_nyc/Gui_Empire_State_Building.html&h=1024&w=768&sz=441&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=mKvN383aAcSaaM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dempire%2Bstate%2Bbuilding%26imgsz%3Dxxlarge%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DN
9. The NY Times clip of Robert Shelton’s absolutely perfect and prescient rave review of one of Dylan's early gigs, in the fall of 1961; in an exhibition at the Morgan Library. (J.P. must be, like, rolling over, stoned, in his grave.)
8. All the ornamental cabbages, Brassica oleracea, purplish, yellowish, whitish, set in planters, around sidewalk trees, on window ledges, on stoops.
7. "Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art," at the China Institute, http://www.chinainstitute.org/gallery/current.html#books
6. Whistler’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, at the Met, on loan from Boston
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Americans_in_Paris/obj.asp?gal=4&i=11
5. The leather-covered bannisters at Hermes, Madison & 62nd
4. The austere front desk, backed by a wall of artists’ binders (for slides) and an equally black-clad attendant, at Mary Boone Gallery, Chelsea. Of course, nobody's used slides for ages, but who doesn't love the intimidation factor?
3. Among the iconic photos of shootings & executions (Rudy/Oswald, the Vietnamese general, Capa's Spanish Civil War) in the hallway leading to MoMA’s “Manet and the Execution of the Maximilian” http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/Manet/index.htm an Associated Press photo shows the execution of three German spies; they were soldiers (disguised as civilians) captured while doing reconnaissance near the Meuse, probably in late 1944, but not shot, according to the caption, until May 1945, that is to say, in a last-minute rush, because the war was almost over (VE Day was May 8th). Manet painted explosions at the tips of his firing squad's rifles; the bullets have not yet hit. In the AP photo, an American officer pins a small, white target on the chest of a spy.
2. A film clip of a frail Auguste Renoir with dealer Ambrose Vollard, at the Met.
1. The Empire State Building. No kidding, from Madison & 34th: with the sun behind me, I looked west and noticed, for the first time, the gleaming metal molding strips that run up the sides of the windows (btw, in the photo, that ain't me, babe):
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ottoni/pictures/12_2003_nyc/Gui_Empire_State_Building.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ottoni/pictures/12_2003_nyc/Gui_Empire_State_Building.html&h=1024&w=768&sz=441&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=mKvN383aAcSaaM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dempire%2Bstate%2Bbuilding%26imgsz%3Dxxlarge%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DN
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