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Friday, September 14, 2007 - 12:43amSanction this postReply
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Among the exhibited paintings will be Vermeer's "Girl with a Pitcher." Certain corporate and city employees can enter free.

Ted Keer

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Friday, September 14, 2007 - 5:48amSanction this postReply
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This is why folks move to the city. My towns idea of art is sidewalk chalk and an interpretive dance from a aging English teacher.

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Friday, September 14, 2007 - 7:06amSanction this postReply
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I Love NY

Many great jobs, lotsa cute chicks and guys, 24 hour access to liquor and groceries by taking an elevator to ground level, all the incredible parks - Central park has deer, alligators, pythons, geese, swans, blue herons, bluebirds, cardinals, orioles, woodpeckers, flickers, peregrine falcons, hawks, owls, many visible easily with the naked eye. I once rested a hand on a tree trunk and missed touching a flicker by inches. Other parks have turkeys and coyotes, most have skunks, oppossum, snapping turtles. Unfortunately they all have mice and rats ranging in size from lab rats to small beagles. Then there's the skyline, the many many museums, zoos, botanical gardens, the Planet Arium, (But with Neil Degr-Asse-Tyson instead of Pluto - the bastard!) Michael Newberry's studio, Top-notch medical facilities, (I've been in the same Hospital where George Costanza watched the nurse bathe the naked lady on Seinfeld - my ward was not so stimulating nut it was clean and my surgeon the best in the country - saved me from a more than 30% of death and from having to get a lifelong colostomy (as they were going to give me at Saint Lukes where they let Lennon Bleed to death) by using radical treatments - Nicolas Feahy, at NYHospital Presbyterian, if anyone needs a reference and relatively low crime rate in NYC (It helps too, if you're over 6 feet and don't look too much like Woody Allen.) Then there are the movie theaters and play houses, the restaurants, the ethnic diversity (I actually get uncomfortable going back to my home town which is 95% WASP, even though I am Russo/Nordic in appearance.) And best of all is the books. Books everywhere, two flagship B&N stores each 4 stories high with regular appearances by renowned authors, used bookstores all over, 21 miles of books at the Strand - the largest store on the east coast, and specialty book stores of every type. Some lunatic judge said that the first amendment allows people to sell books on the sidewalk. In certain neighborhoods you can but vintage and textbooks from homeless people for a dollar.

Indeed, my last visit to the freegans netted me:

Atlas Shrugged (80's ppbk)
Fountainhead (90's ppbk)
Ratzinger's official vatican cathechism w/179 pp of ethics and politics in summa form.
White Goddess by Graves
Clancy's Sum of all Fears
Crichton's Airfream
Chthon by Piers Anthony
all for $10

The subways get you anywhere with a free transfer for $2, 600 miles of track up to 45 miles long, with relatively clean airconditioned cars. You run into celebrities. I've met or bumped into Patrick Stewart, Mariah Carry, Regis Philbin, Bernadette Peters, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Kathleen Turner, and many more. My boyfriend Got OJ Simpson's autograph one weak before the murders.

Of course, my boyfriend was killed in a hijacking. The tax rate and cost of food is ridiculous, Milk is between $4.50 & 5.50 a Gallon. A parking spot in a good area costs as much as the rent on a studio apartment. Space is expensive, most people food and clothing shop on monthly trips to NJ to wholesale clubs. But luxuries are cheap.

My only advice is that NYC is no place to raise children, they come out rude, loud, parochial, poorly dressed, and this is in the rich neighborhoods. The white enclaves of the Upper East and West sides of Manhattan have the rudest people on earth, they put the French to shame. The wives and daughters of white businessmen are clueless, walking backwards through intersections talking on their cellphones. They cut in line (I put my hand on their heads or shoulders and stop such behavior) and if they don't get their way the usually scream or cry or both.

But if you can put up with those minor inconveniences, nothing beats NY.

Ted Keer

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Friday, September 14, 2007 - 7:14amSanction this postReply
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Nice to see you back, Steve. Funny, you look like a writer, and I look like a truckdriver!

Ted

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Friday, September 14, 2007 - 8:58amSanction this postReply
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Unfortunately, I have been unable to find out what specific works by what specific painters are available, and I did search on line. The museum is publishing a companion book. Perhaps if one gets the title or the book from the Museum Website (link above) and looks at Amazon, the index may be available there. The title is 1,083 pp, $175.

Ted

(Edited by Ted Keer on 9/14, 11:14am)


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Friday, September 14, 2007 - 9:35amSanction this postReply
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Yes, I know. I am the oddest looking truck driver. I get strange looks all the time. I'm sure the other drivers think I'm a 'good buddy'.

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Friday, September 14, 2007 - 10:56amSanction this postReply
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Oh, I did see, while driving through Louisville last week, that there is going to be a Frederick Hart exhibit at the university. Sculpture has to be my favorite form of art, after literature.

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Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 9:11amSanction this postReply
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So, Ted, would you say it's a nice place to visit (NYC)? :3

-- Brede

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Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 12:48pmSanction this postReply
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NYC is the number-one tourist destination in the country. It's expensive and dirty. People will run you down in the street if you stand still - but I think that's the fault of the slowpokes. If you're going to visit, it helps to know what you intend to see ahead of time. Tourist traps are to be avoided at all costs, most places to see are not necessarily known to tourists.

I can't put you up myself, but if you ever do plan to visit, let me know, and I can suggest great places to visit and would be glad to hang out when I'm not working.

Ted

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Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 7:18pmSanction this postReply
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I lived in Chicago for a short time, too short, and loved every hour I spent there. When I move again, which I will, from this one horse town, I'll certainly put the Windy City at the top of my list.

As for New York, I can only say that I have driven through it, in a big rig, and found it dirty and cramped. I would enjoy seeing some of the better spots; those places that are not filled with 'foreigners' and high priced pleasure.

I'll sleep in my truck, just point me in the right direction Ted. ;)

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Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 11:20pmSanction this postReply
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Alright, ignoring the talk about NYC itself (I lived there for a while as a kid, so I already know it's expensive and dirty, haha)- I think I'm going to try to go to this exhibit, and thank you for putting it to my attention, Ted!

The "Age of Rembrandt" (Baroque) is the period in art history I specialize in (with some deviation, haha), so it would be very excellent in my expanding knowledge base to see this (I see much more of Italian Baroque art than northern)- and if I do a really excellent paper afterwards, I might even be able to get some credit from my school to go. :)

Excellent. Now to figure out the logistics of actually getting there.





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Monday, September 17, 2007 - 6:55amSanction this postReply
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Sarah, I'm not sure if there's an Amtrak Acela train from your area into Penn Station. It can be reasonable if you book early and off-peak. There is an express from Chicago. I haven't flown since the 80's, but Jet Blue's cheap. I'd strongly suggest you call the info number in the first post if you want to try to find out what actual works will be presented. The exhibit runs through January. I don't intend to go right away, the last two opening exhibits I attended were mobbed and the ushers sped people along. Entrance to the museum is, of course, free - but bring your student ID to make sure you don't pay full price to get into the exhibit itself. Also, the companion book will probably be shortly available used after the exhibit opens, although you won't see the full size or the brush strokes, of course.

Ted

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Monday, September 17, 2007 - 9:56amSanction this postReply
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I'll definitely check out being able to take Amtrak, though I was anticipating just spending some frequent flyer miles or something- and I have made the drive from Minneapolis to NY a few times as well, so that wouldn't be a big deal for me either (though in winter I will admit it usually sucks to do). But I will definitely check out Amtrak, didn't think of that one.

I will probably try to go sometime in mid-December, right when my finals get finished up. I'd probably make a big trip of it since I have friends and family in all the surrounding areas, and would like to scope out Sotheby's while I'm there.

Thanks again for the info.!



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Monday, September 17, 2007 - 2:14pmSanction this postReply
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Steve:

     Actually, to me, your pic makes me think of a cross 'twixt Edward R. Murrow and Oscar Levant. Sorta 'Thinker-Cool.'

     Don't truck drivers have a gear-shift in the other hand, and a 6-pack next to them?  :)

LLAP
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Monday, September 17, 2007 - 3:27pmSanction this postReply
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 Don't truck drivers have a gear-shift in the other hand, and a 6-pack next to them?  :)

The six-packs are in front of them, one way or another.....;-)


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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 5:12amSanction this postReply
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If this is the same traveling exhibit I saw here in Phoenix, everyone should go see it. It's terrific.

Jim


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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 9:49amSanction this postReply
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Thanks, James.  You don't happen to have a program or know or remember any of the pieces that were on display?

Ted


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