So many Exhibitions, So Little Time

[Wilfrid]

Oh yes, see them all.

I just caught Tony Cragg at Marian Goodman which was wonderful but has now closed.

Theaster Gates at the New Museum. Don’t miss.

[joethefoodie]

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Probably  they teach them that France valiantly rebuffed the Nazis, too.

As we do every time we visit Paris, yesterday we visited what is one of the more depressing memorials/museums, just to remember and shed a tear or two.

https://www.onac-vg.fr/hauts-lieux-memoire-necropoles/memorial-des-martyrs-de-la-deportation

[Chambolle]

[Chambolle]

[Chambolle]

What’s amazing about Picasso is that there can be 10 simultaneous expos throughout the world focused on him … and none lack the seminal works necessary to delineate the intended theme of the expo … I don’t think that anyone compares at this level of extreme production and extreme “quality” 

[joethefoodie]

Almost as depressing as our previous day’s visit.

[Chambolle]

Une expo ⚽️ extrêmement ⚽️ triste … trop triste  ⚽️ pour des mots … je vous laisse avec que ces photos 🇦🇷… j’ai vu cette expo le soir de mon arrivée à Madrid (depuis Barca … Gresca, Alkimia (meilleur resto dans la ville IMNO) etc etc) et après mon dîner (triste, à cause du résultat du match, sans doute) chez Gofio … mais avec un vin heureux … bien sûr le Taganan d’Envinate … 

[Chambolle]

Oh so depressing … and those refs were OBVIOUSLY bribed to ensure that those Latin As didn’t lose and that the French got effed ! 

There’s  a lot of effing going on in France 🇫🇷, trust me !

[Chambolle]

Okay, done with lunch at Chispa Bistro (worth a visit … the somm is Isma who was the best somm that Nerua ever had … super nice guy) and off to get the latest update on Tesla at Caixa 

Feliz navidad ! 🎅 🎄 …  🕎  🥳

Last night was back to (the brand new) Umiko … the old Umiko is now Umikobake but hélas they don’t know how to make Mochi a la japonaise 🇯🇵 … so you all have been forewarned 

Last last night was back to living La Buena Vide followed by a midnight cocktail with Carlos at (the kinda dead) del Diego (cuz Gota shuts early … pathetic)

Last last last night was back in the Saddle again … and quite frankly, it might be my last time … but quite quite frankly I’ll probably stupidly go again and be disappointed again  and then say I’m totally absolutely done with this haute but not haute place … but the cheeses were good with my Vina Tondonia blanco 😀

Okay I really really really gotta go now … going to drop (by) Acid, get totally wired and then go experience our newly electrified world … 

 

[AaronS]

On 12/21/2022 at 11:51 PM, Wilfrid said:

 

Theaster Gates at the New Museum. Don’t miss.

there's a nice documentary about him on apple+ that has some stunning architecture he's done in chicago. it's part of a series called home.

[Wilfrid]

Thanks Aaron, I'll check it out.

I know I've seen works by him in another show this year. Okay, it was in the potters show at the Met. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/edgefield/exhibition-objects

ETA: Oh, and also in "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration" at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

[bloviatrix]

I'm off next week (we were unexpectedly given an additional three days). My plans are Alex Katz at the Guggenheim, Tudors at the Met, Mugler at Brooklyn, and Gates at the New Museum. I'll be cultured out by Friday night.

[Wilfrid]

I hope you love the Gates.

I picked up a copy of Brooklyn Rail and was captivated by the interview with Senegalese artist Omar Ba. In the inky print edition his works are reproduced in monochrome. On the website you can see the colors:

https://brooklynrail.org/2023/12/art/Omar-Ba-with-Emann-Odufu
 

His show at the Baltimore Museum of Art opened shortly after I was there. But it runs through April so I am thinking of a brief spring visit with a reprise of my 2022 restaurant dinner of the year at Charleston.

[AaronS]

the duke riley show at the brooklyn museum is well worth seeing.

[Wilfrid]

Thank you again.