An end of the week review of my most memorable and random sightings in New York City:
1.MAN WITH CAT ON HEAD. I’m not even kidding. There is no other way to describe it other than: there’s a man that walks around with his cat on his head.
2. My moms Puerto Rican best friend. Unexpectedly ran into her and her entire family on their visit to the city from Puerto Rico.
3. The mariachi band on the subway. Maracas + guitars + sombreros. All that was missing were mexican pointy boots.
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it’s been a bit hectic lately. ok, who am i kidding. i am overwhelmed. so, today i decided i needed a little pick me up and bought myself a delicious lemon vegan cupcake at baby cakes in the lower east side.
lesson learned: treat myself more often.
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Had the loveliest Sunday in Manhattan. Filled with meeting an old college friend, Bastille Day festival, gelato at GROM, and a lovely stroll on The High Line.
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5. “I would like to take a break from being myself.” [true/false]
6. “I would like this break to involve sex, ice cream, and sheets with a high thread count.” [true/false]
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The art world has lost a true genius and a completely original talent.
-Larry Gagosian on recently deceased artist Cy Twombly
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HELPFUL HINTS:
Always be around.
Come or go to everything.
Always go to classes.
Read everything you can get your hands on.
Look at movies carefully and often.
SAVE EVERYTHING.
(It may come in handy later.)
-John Cage
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Tonight I went to the opening reception for Xavier Cha, Cory Arcangel, and Lyonel Feininger at the Whitney. All exhibitions offer an eclectic and diverse spectrum of art. Xavier’s piece is performative, physically and perceptually engaging a performer (an actor) and the viewer in space. Cory’s work is technology based and heavily influenced by pop cultural mediums- photoshop, LCD screens, gaming systems, et cetera. Feininger wraps it all together with a retrospective of his work from his early drawings as a comic illustrator to his late analytical cubist paintings.
Definitely worth seeing.
Above: Cory Arcangel.
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The intensity and variety of my feeling are so strong that I have to do something with it because it kind of splits me apart.
— Andro Wekua
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ohMAAN 
