Last week I went to Philadelphia to see Ben Peterson's artwork in the show Urbanism at the Philadephia Academy of Fine Arts. PAFA was the first art school and art museum in the United States. It is on Broad Street a couple blocks from City Hall. It was the first art show I had gone to in a while and I was pleased with it. Ben's work is incredibly detailed and impressively scaled. Broad Street, Philadelphia - At 548 feet tall, the Philadelphia City Hall is the second tallest masonry building in the world. It was constructed from 1871 to 1901. It is the 16th-tallest building in Pennsylvania. The Arch Street United Methodist Church, built between 1864 and 1870. Behind...
I went to Japan a month ago. I still don't know what to think about it. For the past few days I have been wanting to go back. Lunch at a restaurant in Kyoto run by Chinese people. They told us that it was the tourist season but no westerners came there, that it was because of the nuclear disaster. I ordered ramen with pork. Nami ordered ma po tofu which is in the bowl on the far left. We got some fried gyoza dumplings. It came with pickled burdock root which is in the little bowl next to the big ramen bowl. There was hot sauce too. This meal was very good and it was regarded by all involved...
Last week I had the christening event at my new space at 56 Bogart in Bushwick. It was a beautiful intimate reading. My old friend Noah Gershman was in town from LA touring his new book of poetry The Enthusiast and needed a place to read. We pulled together a quick group to accompany him. Bonnie Pipkin read from her novel, Presenting Dazzle Zoe, which she just finished the first draft of and Rob Bronco of the Wild Yaks read from his 2003 journal. It was really a lovely little event full of champagne, fire works, good friends and lots of love. We ended the night at the Narrows with shots and what have you....
It Looks Cool - Mary and me outside her studio on Bogart during the Bushwick Open Studios. It was the fifth year. Somebody made a blog post about it that featured a photo of us but Nami took this one. It Looks Cool!
