Friday, April 19, 2013
A visit to MOMA... Always so much to see.. highlight for me was Claes Oldenberg... all kinds of wonderful objects he produced in the late fifties and early sixties.. Soft sculptures of familiar objects... so instead of bronze soldiers on horses he brought us a huge hamburger.. Remember the fuss when the AGO bought the hamburger? Now that very piece was part of the restropective. Such fun to see it here in NY. Also some wonderful pieces by Henri Rousseau.. I never realized before that even though he painted wonderous canvasses of jungles he never left Paris. ..Another artist featured was Munsch... Even had one of his scream pictures.
We bumped into Maggie.. so we took her to lunch at one of our favourites. Rue 57 at 57th and 6th
We had a wonderful evening at Judy and Doug Henderson . We met Doug in the fall of 1962 when he returned from the Yukon working with Martyn Fowlds on the Foxie show in Dawson. He has always been a back stage techie guy He met Judy when he was on tour with the Canadian opera company and moved to New York after he and Judy married. She is a top casting director now.. she won an Emmy for her work on Heartland.. Doug retired from being a carpentar for the Metropolitan Opera Company some years ago, and being a very talented guy, did renovations on houses for stars!
They live in a house on the upper west side which Doug has totally renovated. And we always love spending time with them. We just pick up where we left off.
Now to see Lulu.. it is her third birthday.. She is very excited!!!
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