Chelsea Galleries and more art...

Yesterday it was time to visit the galleries.   While I usually look at photography, this time it was mostly art.  Amongst the idiotic, trendy, and annoying bits, there is always something interesting.   Highlights.

Anish Kapoor, who does very large things, created this big steel whatisit.  It had amazing acoustics underneath it.

One of the pleasures of gallery exhibits like this is the chance to enjoy the work in relative quiet.  There was no one else there.

I also like Brice Marden's paintings on chunks of marble that he does in Greece.   The combination of the texture of marble with the varied textures of the paint he uses is very interesting.   Photos don't do justice.   But...

Also saw a large retrospective of the works of Lucio Fontana, an Italian avant-gardist who worked mostly from 1947 - 1964.   This was at the Gagosian gallery, which puts on shows which would normally be found at MOMA.  Fontana's thing was "spatial constructions".   Lots of canvases with punctures and cuts of all kinds, and installations of small, completely black rooms with a few lights.   The Sixties awaits!

Vera ate lunch with a musicologist friend, and Ada has a nice friend from her time at Penn staying with us.