Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Day of Dia: Beacon



Rob and I took the Metro North up the Hudson River on Monday to visit Dia: Beacon. This beautifulness is just a couple hours north of the city. Some of the artists exhibited: Richard Serra, Sol Lewitt, Michael Heizer and Andy Warhol. There was, unfortunately, an overly large display of canvases and paper,seemingly, with just gesso. I have yet to figure this ridiculous phenomenon out.

A Walk in the Woods, or rather, Greenwood Cemetary


Saturday was the most lovely, fall-esque day in Brooklyn. Rob and I went on a long walk through Greenwood Cemetary with Patrick, Mina, Markus, Adina and baby, Yana. We saw Samuel Morse's grave, the inventor of the telegraph and morse code. We also walked through a giant, modern mausoleum, complete with a quiet waterfall, couches, a computer directory and an elevator. We're pretty sure it is mafia related.

P.S. 1 in Long Island--Refresh Your World!


During a visit to P.S. 1 in Long Island, a museum that is affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art and which is housed in an old public school, hence the P.S., we discovered ...chickens! There was also a huge urban-garden sculpture that sorta looked like a giant lego/tinker toy with flowers and grass and weeds and a stream of water with a solitary plastic fork floating upon its still, reflective surface.


Thursday, October 09, 2008

Butters likes to smell things



Butters and rosemary, the most lovely smell that Butters will lay his damp, little nose upon amidst these Brooklyn sidewalks, that is for sure!

cousin mike in nyc with lady liberty


even though we skipped liberty island on our way to ellis island, i snapped a picture of mike back to back with the statue. that is not the kind of boat we were on; though, yeargh...that would have been arrrghuably cooler!