Day 1: SFO to Cincinnati

Day 1: SFO to Cincinnati OH

THB top Book(s) On Art:  Matisse Biography, Volumes 1 and 2 by Hilary Spurling

Weather: Nice in E-ville, cold and overcast and drizzly in Cincinnati

Pics from the flight:

United no longer has screens, even in 1st class!

You add an app to your device...then get tech support to come to your assistance

And then the guy in the front row helps you be able to watch horizontally...of course, it involves a reboot!

There's some snow in Sierras

THB had forgotten he had "veg" in his United profile; the chickpeas were pretty good

The 30-ish guy across the aisle has brought a 10+ pound bio of Henry VIII with him..THB wanted to explain to him they had this new thing called an e-reader 

We’re off for a combo trip: hotel art in 4 cities (in two days) and the new memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Our first stop is spending the night at the 21C in Cincinnati. The flight leaves SFO early, arrives early, and we start at Dollar for our one-way rental. Of course, since we’re dropping the car elsewhere, we get a car with high mileage: 40k miles of wear and tear.

Several people were happy to see us on the road

It seems like just a few minutes ago we were side-by-side on the blanket, and then Cecily decided to take a trip and keep her toys with her

The 21C hotels are owned by a family that decided that the best way to show their art free of charge 24/7 was to put the work in a hotel. We have stayed in the Bentonville location and liked it enough to give it a go for this trip. Cincinnati does not disappoint!! A great show of female artists, most of the work is very good (and we’ve seen some of these artists in other collections).

Pics of the hotel and our room:

Graffiti across the street and up high

The front desk is a piece of art

A bathtub in the shower rather than the other way around

Penguins are strewn throughout the hotel and guests are welcome to move them around, even putting them in their rooms at night.

The in-house show features female artists. Here are lots of pics from the show; there are permanent pieces on the second floor that THB won't be able to take until tomorrow when the lights are on

Zoe Buckman

Margarita Cabrera (we saw a "soft" Hummer as part of the Al West collection)

Carrie Mae Weems

Alison Saar

A photo of a Jenny Holzer large scale "projection" installation

Monica Cook, THB's best of show

Michele Pred

Vee Speers

Then dinner in the hotel, we share salads and split an excellent duck breast entrée.  With drinks and a discount package of dinner ($25) that came with the room, total comes to $78.

Kale salad in back, burnt carrot in foreground

Lemon spun sugar with your bill

sorry, the duck breast was eaten so quickly you'll have to settle for pureed carrots a la jar

Dining with a yellow penguin