Art In NYC

OK - no collage today - this is on a wall down the block from our hotel. There's a sign on it that says "help Zabar's protect this unusual work". I've been in Zabar's, a fabulous NY Deli another block away, to pick up great food. But I don't know the story of this art, just liked Nik walking past this on this bright morning on our way to the subway to:

Times Square. He couldn't believe there was a place with this many millions of people and neon lights. Got the tshirt on the street and some cool shades.

Radio City Music Hall backstage tour. We had tickets to the new show "Hearts and Lights" supposed to open about a week ago - so thot the tour would be fun for Nik who just had the lead in his school play a week ago and is interested in that theater! Well, the show was postponed at the last minute til next year - 100,000 tickets were refunded! the word is that some parts aren't yet quite up to the Rockettes' high standard, the Christmas Spectacular. But we loved the tour of that fabulous 1932 Art Deco theater that was saved from being demolished in 1978 and totally restored to be a huge successful venue for lots of different shows . Nik hammed it up for his photo with the Rockette !

Rockefeller Center walk around- a very fun imaginative exhibition of some of the 235 or so 2 feet tall fiberglass eggs decorated by artists all over town for charity arts in the schools.

MOMA ( museum of modern art) where we just had to sit down for lunch first - long line, slow. But good. (Gotta feed that kid -and we badly needed a latte!) I was waiting to see what he would say in the first room we went to in painting and sculpture - it was instantly spotted. " gramma, there's your room!!!!!" Henri Russeau's The Dream- which until a week ago covered the walls of our bathroom! OMG! How did it get on your walls? Who did it? Ha... That was pretty fun and yes we have photos. But there were many " I know that one. Van Gogh's Starry Night, Matisse's Red Studio etc etc. "you mean this is the REAL one?" Lots of iPod pix taken. Decided he wants to paint his room like a hard edged Ad Reinhardt , that Jackson Pollack reminds him of frenzied NY. And..... On top of all that there was another interesting photography show about how artists use the studio for photography. (Sets, stage, laboratory, experiments, etc etc. )

Too much for my brain... And my feet.

Had dinner in our hotel room with microwave and frig. A bit from Zabar's and a lot of leftover from what Nik thot he could eat at the Thai restaurant last night. So I had time to put my feet up and not move and record our day !

Exhausted. Sometime I'll get to more of your blips! Apologies.

EDIT: the iPad works this :: if you are interested in reading about Banksy, the British graffiti artist who did this work, look at nhc's LINKS on first comment!! I can't believe I didn't immediately recognize it but I didn't! But I did blip it :-)

This MIGHT work for the weekly blip challenge "block" as the plexiglass is there to block anyone from defacing this artwork. In another instance a building owner blocked the art with a metal screen so no one could view it!