Wonderful quote from Nancy Roman (instrumental in NASA's Hubble Telescope) who just died at 93. "For a cost of a night at the movies, each American citizen would get 10 years of exciting discoveries."
Norman Gimbell also died (who co-wrote with David Shire It Goes Like It Goes the Academy Award winning song from Norma Rae).
Photos HERE of the Outsider Art Fair 2019.
So sad that Carol Channing passed away this week but she had a great long life probably due to her alcohol abstinence and taking her own little package of food whenever she eat out. The pianist started to play towards the end of last night’s National Arts Club opening (more to say about that) Before the Parade Passes By and the ‘human leftovers’ all had a tear in our eye and a little wake. I think my rendition of Hello Dolly was more Ethel Merman than Channing, though;)
Don’t miss the exquisite Drawings of Gaston Lachaise before the show passes by on the 25th. Below is an extract from the rather sad end to Lachaise’s life:
Also at the National Arts Club (one of the few private clubs that has admitted women as full and equal members since its inception), 122nd Annual Open Juried Exhibition- Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1828-1887) was a prominent New York philanthropist and art collector, and the only woman among the 106 founders of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Money from the benefit evening enables The Met Museum’s travel and research funds.
Couple of things that caught my eye at Master Drawings Week 2019 HERE.
Would the Paul César Helleu at David Tunick be the definition of insouciance? A precursor, perhaps, of the character Villanelle in the TV series Killing Eve?
At the Met Museum don’t miss (ends Jan 27) the Tintoretto (from the Royal Collection) that hung nonchalantly above a sofa in Prince Charles’ ‘pied’ in the Cotswolds in England. A truly unusual remarkable work.
