NYC: Art Outing

Each week Rob & I take one girl each on a date. This week I took Lula to the Earth Room, a loft filled with several feet of earth and maintained with regular watering for the last 30 years. There is also a full-time staff member assigned to sit in the gallery next to the Earth Room. Lula wanted to know if there were worms in it. There used to be but they ran out of organisms to eat. It's located on Wooster street between Houston and Prince - the back windows facing our old loft on West Broadway. Were we still living there in '77? Dad do you remember the Earth Room?


After the Earth Room, we went to the Deitch Projects Gallery on Wooster between Grand and Canal exhibiting Totalities by Chris Johanson.

Lula & I walked around, up the ramp, through the structure with a rotating wooden shape in the middle of painting on stands, then around and up some stairs to another ramp, more paintings a bunch of chairs and more paintings in another room. While it was fun to walk around the art I would have liked to see something more organic and tied into the theme. The art didn't seem to have much to do with the layout and could have been any paintings at all.

Across the street is a possibly commissioned art piece written about in the New York Times.

NYC: Chinatown - Sea Food

Maya likes to look at the sea life in Chinatown.

NYC: Bowery & Houston Gallery

This place is interesting - its a gallery with a garage door opening and lots of subversive art.

NYC: Part Time Job

Without giving me a chance to say no, this guy asked me to watch his cart for me. If he only knew how many hot dogs I ate...

NYC: Grocery Shopping

The Associated has mini grocery carts. I tell the girls they can chose one fruit or vegetable. It gets them involved and makes the trip easier.

New York: Coney Island

Coney Island is still pretty neat even with the close of Astroland. My nikon broke but I had my phone camera. Here's a few photos with the Wonder Wheel in the background. My children never stay still no matter what I threaten!

New York: Walking around with Maya

Wednesday we have individual dates with the girls. Maya and I walked down Mott street. We stopped for Mochi. A very aggressive buddhist asked for my number and when I said I didn't know her well enough asked for her number back.

New York: Night Life

Now that we're in one place for a little while, we're getting routines in place and Rob & I are trying to get back into going on dates. We're making up for lost time with about two a week. Last night we went to Molyvos for dinner. I had the soup that supposedly Paul Newman always ordered. It was good. Then we went to the Russian Tea Room for dessert before a movie (Ghost Town - sweet). I had the chocolate Vodka Fondue for $18. It was the smallest fondue I've ever seen with 6 small pieces of items to dip and two shot glasses of chocolate. It was fun and I'm not complaining! The chocolate was monogrammed. There was a Faberge egg on display.

New York: Running Around Manhattan

We drove 4,000 miles this summer all around New England. Now we're in New York city and I'm taking a lot of photos with my phone. Yesterday after "Sports Bugs" class at the YMCA (Lula was good at basketball and I'm going to get one for home,) I took them to the New Museum less than a block away. Lula liked Werner Herzog's After Nature and also a movie of barbie's by Lauren Kelley, Big Gurl.

Egremont Fair

Photos courtesy of my Dad.