Day 4 NY

 Weather: Gorgeous while 5 minutes of rain occur while THB and DB are having lunch indoors

Department of Apologies: how you "normalize" empty bakery shelves: 

(from Sullivan Street Bakery) Sorry we disappointed you today.  Unfortunately bread is alive, and all our dough is processed by hand, sometimes things don’t go as planned.  We are baking 24 hours a day at our facility on 47^th, so we always have fresh bread on the way if you have the time to wait. Above was the reply to THB's e-mail asking "where is your product?"...a guy who actually expects bakeries to have baked goods at 8am and waited a half-hour for something to show up...nada

Breakfast at Sarabeth's, a chain of about 5 or 6 spots. Note the scaffolding, many retailers are covered up as work is done on the buildings above them

Lemon ricotta pancakes with side of plain yogurt; 2 orders plus coffee and yogurt and poor service in a near empty place, around $80

It is an art day, starting with a visit to the Whitney at the foot of the High Line in Chelsea. THB and DB joined because members got early access  to the Biennial. Of course something went wrong with renewal and thee guy at desk said they will  straighten it out  later.

Start at the top and use the stairs to work our way down as the Biennial is spread out over 4-5 floors

Edward Hopper from the permanent collection

Work by PaJaMa, a menage a trois collective

Norman Lawles

Lee Krasner

Jasper Johns

Hmmmm....

Rosalyn Drexler

Andy's commentary on nose jobs

Stairwell decor

Rose B Simpson

Camnupa Hamska Lugar

Maja Ruznica

Mary Lovelace O'neal

THB knows beach trash pickup items when he sees them

Holland Andrews

stairwell sound art piece

Whitney seen from Hudson River side

New Pier 57 Park

Not the Empire State Building observation deck...looks scary!

Lunch at another Sullivan Street location, this time about 12:30 and there are pasties, bread, beer, and pizza!

After lunch, Chelsea art gallery visits

Arcman Niles

Book cover...self portrait?

Kim Yun Shin: well on in years Korean artist whose work will be in Venice Biennale (mostly her work in wood, sorry no pics)

Thomas Nozkowski

THB did not get artist name; mostly lightboxes with movement of the flowers (not great, this guy was giving them a long look)

street art

all subway stations THB has been in have this nice tile embedded in the walls

Dinner: Comte cheese (from Whole Foods downstairs in basement), Sullivan St rolls, green apple, half bottle of Chablis from the mini-bar and turndown chocolates; another day with over 14K steps, we are definitely racking up the miles chasing art and bread

Book Review: Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange (novel, narrated by a whole bunch of well-known voices): the third generation of stars wandered too far, getting high, addicted, lost, irresponsible, after the first two generations of Native Americans spent most of the time explaining how they were woke and others not. Semi-redeeming feature: lots of the inaction took place within a few miles of LB’s home.