as long as it includes generous splashes of pink
The day was sunny but chilly – as in a jacket-and-beanie chilly.
But the young and brave ones didn’t seem to mind.
April 21st, 2018
Tag: manhattan
Spring time || Dancing || Any time
@ TimesSquare
If ever one needed a good excuse to dance…
April 21st, 2018
It’s always good to leave for a while
So you can come back to these views ↓ ↓
April 18th, 2018
Heartbreak America
”…no other nation on Earth comes close to experiencing the frequency of mass shootings that we see in the United States. No other developed nation tolerates the levels of gun violence that we do. Every time this happens, we’re told that tougher gun laws won’t stop all murders; that they won’t stop every deranged individual from getting a weapon and shooting innocent people in public places. But the evidence shows that they can stop some killings. They can save some families from heartbreak. We are not helpless here. And until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these tragedies will keep happening”.
“We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalises racist sentiments; leaders who demonise those who don’t look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as sub-human, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people.”
“It has no place in our politics and our public life. And it’s time for the overwhelming majority of Americans of goodwill, of every race and faith and political party, to say as much – clearly and unequivocally.”
Former US President Barack Obama
August 5th, 2018 following the mass shootings in
El Paso, Texas on August 3rd 2019 & Dayton, Ohio on August 4th 2019.
July 20, 1969 || One small step for Man
Buzz Aldrin Walking on the Surface of the Moon Near a Leg of the Lunar Module,
Buzz Aldrin with Apollo 11 Lunar Module on the Moon, Neil Armstrong
Apollo 11 Command and Service Modules Photographed from the Lunar Module in Orbit, 1
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon with the American Flag,
Astronauts in Lifeboat After Apollo 11 Splashdown,
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, surveys visual representations of the moon from the dawn of photography through the present. In addition to photographs, the show features a selection of related drawings, prints, paintings, films, astronomical instruments, and cameras used by Apollo astronauts.
It will run through September 22, 2019. One more good reason to return to the Met.
July 20th, 2019
You know it’s getting hot when…
Even at this altitude, there is no escape!
March 30th, 2018
They make a perfect couple
(from my collection)
March 30th, 2018
Paths crossing
@MoMA
Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
(cast 1931 or 1934)
(you can’t get a more fitting title than that)
March 25th, 2018
Being: Tarsila & Henri & Joanna & Sofia
Getting acquainted with the work of Tarsila do Amaral, whose art is as stunning as the artist herself; capturing the minimal geometry of New York’s temple of modern art; feeling the urge to stop by ”The Piano Lesson”, one of Matisse’s most interesting compositions (a few more times and I might even begin to like it); leaping from modern art to ”New Photography” and its 2018 edition examining how photography can capture ”what it means to be human”.
Tarsila do Amaral, Estudo (Academia no. 2), 1923, oil on canvas
Tarsila do Amaral, A Gare, 1925, oil on canvas
Tarsila do Amaral, O touro, 1928, oil on canvas
Tarsila do Amaral, O sono, c. 1928, oil on canvas
Tarsila do Amaral, Urutu, 1928, oil on canvas
Tarsila do Amaral, Operários, 1933, oil on canvas
Henri Matisse, The Piano Lesson, 1916, oil on canvas
Joanna Piotrowska, XXIII Frowst, 2013-2014, silver gelatin hand print
Sofia Borges. Theatre, or Cave, 2014. UV-printed wallpaper, printed 2018
Sofia Borges, Yellow Chalk, 2017, pigmented inkjet print
MoMA, March 25th, 2018
It’s kinda lonely at the top
I’m not talking about me, oh no, even though with this view I often feel like a princess in her tower. It’s that rooftop looking down between the buildings that looks like a public parking but is usually empty, save for a car or two. It’s not often one can find an empty spot of this size in the heart of Manhattan, where every available inch is too valuable to be left unused.
20180320 – 6:55 AM
The Humble Fabulist 