November 11, 2017

Next year is the 100th Anniversary of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect.



My trip to the Whitney museum was fine until I was told that George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo was no longer on display.



Unusual settings.



Lots of Hopper including : A Woman in the Sun.



Jimmie Durham's exhibition was thought provoking.



Criterion collection was 60% off at Barnes and Noble. Bought The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Michael Hordern is a terrific Ashe.



Richard Burton gives an understated yet powerful performance as Alec Leamas.




Thanksgiving on the way, cranberries abound.

July 23, 2017

Perfect score !



Nighthawks by Edward Hopper at the Art Institute of Chicago.



Hopper: "[Nighthawks] was suggested by a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet. Nighthawks seems to be the way I think of a night street.
Question: Lonely and empty?
Hopper: I didn't see it as particularly lonely. I simplified the scene a great deal and made the restaurant bigger. Unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city." - quoted in Katharine Kuh, The Artist's' Voice: Talks with Seventeen Modern Artists, p. 134



Matthew's Seafood- Ocean Beach, Fire Island, NY.



$70 win, $95 for the weekend.



Bart: Nights.I wake up sometimes. It's as if none of it really happened, as if nothing were real anymore.
Laurie: Next time you wake up, Bart, look over at me lying there beside you. I'm yours and I'm real.

February 9, 2009

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.



A photoshop putting it back on Seventh Avenue and Greenwich.
As envisioned as by a self-described Flâneur.



The 1964 World's Fair has a great nostalgia
Web site.



Why is the sky blue? Mostly,
Rayleigh Scattering.