March 2018

 Tarsila do Amaral - MOMA

 Sono

Prix fixe

Salad, steak, fries

and that's it 

Metropolitan Museum

Manus x Machina 

Fashions including 3-d printed materials

5/11/2016

 Afterwards we went to a little Bolivian take-out place in a place called the Turnstile, inside the 59th Street Station. Bit of trouble finding it and not worth the effort

Met Breuer

UNFINISHED

Hand of God - Renoir

Basquiat

Lucian Freud

Gerhard Richter

march 2016

Drove in to see a cello master class. Then visited The Studio Museum of  Harlem

And eventally a Senegalese restaurant on Adams and 122nd

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Folkart Museum

 Adolf Wolfli SAINT ADOLF MORDU A LA JAMBE PAR LA SERPENT, 1921

Delicious Panini and glass of wine
10th ave and 29th

9/11 Museum

With Carole Oct 1th

Very moving

MOMA 2014

5-20-2014

With Kirsten to see Lygia Clark.
I had found a free entry to MOMA in my cache IN THE MEADOW. What a treasure.

There were also the Impressionists

 This is a de Kooning - Kirsten's favorite

We also created something, but I am just not good at it.

Historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House.

July 9th, 2013

A visit to the Historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. 

The Customs House is today the Museum of the American Indian but we were more interested in the original building, built between 1902 and 1907.

There are guided visits every day at 1pm. The day we went, there was a sign, NO VISITS. However, a very nice and extremely knowledgeable gentleman offered to give the tour, being that the usual guide was sick.

The tour is well worth taking, it was very interesting, covering the building and architecture, the workings of customs in the long ago days, different types of marble, reception room and office for the Customs official, the New York branch of the National Archives, lavish sculptures, paintings, and decorations by well-known artists of the time and much more.

Marble from Switzerland, above, reflecting the color of dollar bills, and marble from Italy, below, marble from

Vermont, white, golden from France and so on.

A very impressive reception room for the Senior Customs Official













We also visited the New York branch of the National Archives and found the following fascinating items:

 

Asking for a good place for lunch in the neighborhood we were directed to Stone Str. and what a discovery that was. Tables on the street from a variety of different restaurants. Should be great for happy hour.

The place we went to was Le Financier, very good.