Happy Halloween!

Photograph that I took while on the Hudson......spooooooky

What I'm Looking at Today: Some Pretty Faces

It depends on what is is......

It's always fun going to museums. I'm always amazed at how modern some of the people in the paintings look.....In fact I'm sure I know some of them.

Obviously a poet

Jaded queens

Chelsea boys

More Chelsea boys

At the gym

OWS

15th c Wall Street

My two moms

 Too odd

I know her!

I know him!

Aww....just kidding

Venice Biennale. San Giorgio Maggiore and Anish Kapoor

I've been a little busy finishing a house in Westchester, NY, so I haven't had a chance to post recently. Add to that that we were at the Biennale in Venice and a furniture exhibit in Versailles, so things have been busy. I thought that I would share some of the beautiful things that I saw while abroad starting with the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The church is set on an island given to the monks of San Giorgio by doge Tribuno Memmo in 982. The first church was consecrated in 829 but the current building, Palladio's masterpiece was begun in 1529. The monastery was abandoned after the Republic fell in 1812 and  is now headquarters of the Cini Foundation arts center.

The Camapnile is very similar in style to the one at San Marco, it has spectacular views of Venice and the Veneto right to the alps.

The maze

View from the top to San Marco

From the Vaporetto stop looking at Venice

The amazingly simple and elegant interior by Palladio was one of two masterpieces on display. The other is the installation by Anish Kapoor called Ascension.