step, step, jump
We spent a significant part of the afternoon leaping over giant water puddles on our way to and from the Bushwick Open Studios and arts festival. The little neighborhood kids, decked out in their swimsuits, were too busy dunking each other with pails of water from the fire hydrants to notice us visitors wandering around.
A few of my favorites: the English Kills art gallery, paintings by Chris Hagerty, and linoleum prints and handmade books by Bonnie Kaye Whitfield, who showed us her drawings in the fabulous little sketchbook she uses ~ I want one too!
Another place worth visiting, the Whitney Museum of American Art, where I stared and stared at the two Hoppers on the fifth floor (I have to visit again when the rest of them return from the big exhibit in Boston), and I was amazed by how Gordon Matta-Clark sawed houses in half and chopped off the corners of attics (and I don’t mean that sarcastically).
Ooooh, I saw the Gordon Matta-Clark exhibit while I was in New York. His work is really, really incredible. I especially liked his photography - the one with the catacombs in Paris juxtaposed with bottles of wine really sticks out in my mind. (Either that or those two images captured me so much that I imagine them together.)
Wow, dunking people with fire hydrant water sounds so much fun… By the way, I read your blog daily, and it’s one of my favorites. I’m waiting till Christmas to buy some of your fabulous journals! Kepp up the good work.
hey, thats my corner! did you come by our place during BOS?
-RoMaSteel