NYC Fall Art Trip, dates announced!!

 

After much debate we've decided to host another NYC Art Trip this Fall!

Mark your calenders! Trip dates: Sept. 29- Oct. 2, 2011

Fall is the best season in NYC! With the cool crisp air sweeping down the Hudson, leaves in Central Park changing color and gallery openings galore it is the best time to be in the city!

I hope you'll consider joining us this go round, our trip last Spring was a blast!

Find out more and where can can enroll on our website ----> NYC Art Trip, Fall 2011

NYC Art Trip Part 2

@The Jane lobby

waiting for our student to arrive!

Great expectations for the day ahead!

Painting from the exhibition @The Met entitled

 Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century

Our room with a view for the day!

View of the Empire State Building through the NYC Public Library

here, here!

The lion agreed too.

A quick pop into St. Patrick's Cathedral on 5th Ave. on our way to The Met

Good timing. Admiring the Lucian Freud. Couldn't help thinking that guy looked a lot like the figure painted!

Taking a moment to smell the roses at The Plaza

Carousel whirlwind in Central Park (love this image, think it would look fantastic as a large C-print!)

Scolded by Van Gogh's neighbors

Admiring Cezanne's fruit

Picking up some treats of our own. Macaroons from Bisous Ciao on the Lower east Side. Never heard of them before, just happened by and couldn't resist! We had to wait at least 10-15 minutes for them to unchill to eat. In the meantime we ate lunch at The Flea Market in the East Village and goobled these up after in Tompkins Sq. Park. Mine was the lemon, Tom's the carmel and sea salt, and Tabitha's lavender with honey! mmm

My favorite painting of the day. By Roy Lichtenstein @The Met. A good reminder to look past the surface of things, there's beauty in the frame!

NYC Art Trip Part 1

We took so many photos and there's so much to share that I think I'll have to post in parts!


First a huge thank you to our incredible student Tabitha who flew in from South Carolina and brought so much energy and openness to new experiences that it made the trip as light as a feather and puffy as a cloud! She was the perfect solider for our frontal assault on NYC. No retreat and no surrender! The Met, The MoMa, The Frick, The NYC Public Library, Hunter Graduate Studios Open House,  all on foot and that was just day one! And yes that is the carousel in Central Park with Tabitha riding the painted pony!


When we arrived it was pouring rain, there were tornadoes in the South and Tabitha's flight was delayed. We found shelter from the rain at Eataly with a cappuccino, surrounded by eye candy and people watching.

The Mother of Espresso machines!

After a quick dump of the bags at The Jane we headed out to gallery night in Chelsea and open MFA studios at SVA. By that time the rain had stopped and the light was ethereal.

(click to see views of the exhibition)

Our first happen by was the Picasso- Marie Therese exhibit @Gagosian where they forcefully took our bag and gave it back on the other side. We were immersed in a crowd of fellow viewers whose returned bags at the end of the viewing were from Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, ahem you know what I mean. The sordid love story of Picasso and M was followed the next morning by the fairy tale love story of Prince William and Kate M which we watched on tv from the Jane... our view:


We both teared up a bit and I don't think it was from the lack of sleep the night before!

More to come! View more images from Eataly here.

Continue to Part 2!

NYC Art Trip 2011

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