Building Pirate Forts

Bean Pickers

Bleu and her friend Ella picking green beans on Monday's field trip.

MoMA Favorites

 

I could waste a day away at the MoMA. I love that place. But when I don't have a ton of time I skip right to the 5th floor for my quick fix. Matisse, Monet, Cezanne, van Gogh, Dali, and Kahlo. They speak to me. I am such a Matisse fan, in fact, that we gave our second son the middle name Henri.

 
Then I ride the escalator down one floor for a taste of Lichtenstein, Pollack and Warhol. I'm always curious to explore new artists, but if I never make it through the photography, sculpture or design exhibits, I still leave feeling completely energized.

 
A few weeks ago when I was there I decided to Instagram iPhone shots of my very favorite pieces on the 4th and 5th floors. Do you recognize them without seeing the whole picture? (Note: There is no Picasso in this post. I've always disliked Picasso and can't bring myself to include even his most famous works of art.) Enjoy!

Joan Mitchell, Wood, Wind, No Tuba, 1980

Robert Indiana, The American Dream, 1961

Niele Toroni, Imprints of a No. 50 Paintbrush... , 1971

Andy Warhol, Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times, 1963

André Derain, L'Estaque, 1906

André Masson, The Kill, 1944

Roy Lichtenstein, Girl with Ball, 1961

Paul Cézanne, Pines and Rocks, 1897

Meret Oppenheim, Red Head Blue Body, 1936

Jasper Johns, Green Target, 1955

Marcel Duchamp, Network of Stoppages, 1914

Wifredo Lam, The Jungle, 1943

Jackson Pollock, Number 1A, 1948

Henri Matisse, Woman on a High Stool (Germaine Raynal), 1914

Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889

Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962

Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude, 2, 1961

Mikhail Larionov, Rayonist Composition: Domination of Red, 1912-13

Henri Matisse, The Moroccans, 1916

Franz Kline, White Forms, 1955

Paul Cézanne, Chåteau Noir, 1903-0

Gustav Klimt, The Park, 1910 or earlier

Vincent van Gogh, The Olive Trees, 1889

Natalia Goncharova, Rayonism: Blue-Green Forest, 1913

Henri Matisse, Dance (I), 1909

Henri Matisse, La Japonaise: Woman Beside the Water, 1905

Piet Mondrian, Composition in Oval with Color Planes 1, 1914

Henri Matisse, The Piano Lesson, 1916

Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911

Henri Matisse, Still Life after Jan Davidsz, de Heem's "La Desserte," 1915

Henri Matisse, Bather, 1909

Georges Braque, Landscape at La Ciotat, 1907

Georges-Pierre Seurat, Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbor, 1888

Umberto Boccioni, Dynamismof a Soccer Player, 1913

Juan Gris, Still Life with Flowers, 1912

Morning in the City

 
It's been a busy month around here, so when I found out that Grandma DJ was flying in two weeks ago I asked her if she could watch the kids one morning while I wandered around the city... alone.


I took the train in with My Sweets, we grabbed the most amazing egg croissant sandwiches to eat in his office, and then I was off to try on some jeans and sweaters before my favorite museum opened. I am never alone. Never. So I must admit that having a couple of hours to weave in and out of places at my leisure felt heavenly. 


As it turns out Tommy didn't have any lunch plans and offered to meet me across town at my fave hole in the wall for some extra spicy pad key mao. While there I texted my old lunch buddy about my order. She replied, "I love that you want to cry over your Thai food. I do, too." Ha. My Sweets treated me to a Jamba Juice to go and by 2:45 I was back on a train, heading home.

My old work building at Broadway + 50th.

My fave Thai place at 48th St. between Broadway + 8th.

My Sweets drinking his $7 fruit smoothie while on a conference call :)

 

A view of Bryant Park from Tom's desk. It's nice to see green.

Bad shoes; heavy bag.

The grill in Bryant Park. Love.