The Guggenheim Museum

Today I came to the conclusion (once and for all) that this is my favorite building in New York City. It's not just the marvelous architecture created by Frank Lloyd Wright, but the fact that it really does provide a marvelous setting for the display of art.

The objective of our visit today was the exhibition of Rineke Dijkstra, a Dutch photographer and videographer. She does portraits--starting in the early 1990s with individual adolescents on beaches in various places, and moving on to other things--perhaps most movingly a series of portraits of a Bosnian refugee starting when she arrived as a small child in Holland through the birth of her child over ten years later. (A ad for the show is on the left edge of this blip--view it large).

We went on to see a play on the lower East Side: Folie Pure, in French, written by a Parisian and produced by a close friend of ours who spends perhaps even more time than we do in Paris. Afterwards nearly a dozen of us involved with the play went out for dinner--hence the posting of this blip after midnight :)