Magritte

Magritte made me think about vocabulary. Magritte works in trunks (the human kind), tubes, clouds, wood, ball bearings, music, chess pieces, rocks. Blues and browns and blacks and greys. I work in animals, stained glass, shoulders and brown hair, houses, and glasses (the kind you drink out of). I work in fairy tales and Bible […]

Reading

I won’t be a snob about seasickness anymore. They told us we might get seasick while the boat was tied up. I only get seasick when I ride the Star Wars ride at Disney World more than two times in a row, so I figured I was fine. (For the record, I rode four times […]

Balthus

“If it’s creepy-dirty, that’s Balthus,” a friend said to me once. Balthus didn’t like bios, thought people didn’t need to know anything about him, that his work should speak for itself. It should. It does. So I wasted no time learning about him before I went to see his show at the Met. He also […]

Sub 1

For a person with claustrophobia, I really love the subway. I learned public transit on the subway here. First the green 6 up to the Met. I was pretty excited about that. Then the shuttle from Grand Central to Times Square, and the N up to my friend’s place by Columbus Circle. The subway always […]