Snowy day in Brooklyn, 2009

Manhattan from Greenpoint on a sunny December day

Mobile Matrix (2006) whale skeloton from Isla Arena in Baja California Sur where gray whales mate, raise their young and die. The artist anhis team excaveted a whale skelelton from the sand. It was shipped to Mexico City, reassembled ad Orozco add drawings on the bones making additions to skeleton's structure and creating fascinating art object.

Orozco works: Four Bicycles, Modified Citroen DS and Spume Stream at exhibition at MoMA

The first major museum retrospective of Gabriel Orozco in MoMA

This exhibition presents 80 works: drawings, sculptures, photography and installations

Another glimpse of Tim Burton imagination

Inside Tim Burton world

Entering  Tim Burton world 

Tim Burton and director of MoMA at the press preview of Tim Burton retrospective.

Fantastic exhibition exploring 27 years Tim Burton' works as a director, a photographer, an artist and illustrator.

On the way to Manhattan, 2009

Fall, NY, NY 09

Central Park, Fall 2009

Manhattan from Red Hook

Penelope Cruz after "Broken Embraces" press conference at NY Film Festival.

Michael Haneke discussing his work after screening  of "White Ribbon" at NY Film Festival

It's Fall again. Time for New York Film Festival. The world's best movies. What an excellent choice. It is  great and intense experience for moviegoers. My favourite this year are:

Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" By Sapphire, dir. Lee Daniels

White Material, dir Claire Denis

Eccentricities Of A Blond Hair Girl, dir. Manuel de Oliveira,

A Room and A Half, dir Andrey Khrzanovsky

documentaries: Ghost Town by Zhao Dayoung, The Art Of The Steal dir, Don Argott, Sweet Grass by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor

M.J.Blige, Tylor Perry, Sherri Shepard, Mariah Carey. Gabourney Sidibe at press conference after screening of "Precious: based On The Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, Toronto International Film Festival 2009

Megan Fox, Johnny Simpson, Amanda Seyfried, dir. Karyn Kusama at the press conference after screening "Jennifer's Body" at Toronto International Film Festival (for a clip please visit youtube/gpospiech

Michael Moore after press conference for "Capitalism: A Love Story" at Toronto International Film festival

Lars von Trier and Willem Defoe at the press conference after North American premiere of "Antichrist"

Jane Campion and Ben Whishaw at the premiere of  "Bright Star". The newest Jane Campion's movie tells story of romantic love of John Keats and his next door neighbour Fanny Brawne.

Festival season started with Venice Film Festival followed by 34th Toronto International Film Festival with its selection of great titles, phenomenal directors, debuts and of course movie stars. From Gala screenings in beautiful places like landmark Winter Garden Theater to shows in small rooms of Varsity or Cumberland but the most important thing is Toronto lives by movies for ten days of Festival. 

Just came back from Toronto International Film Festival. A lot of great movies, a lot of celebrities and great atmosphere!

Red Walls, Ny, NY 2008

Red Walls, Chinatown, NY, NY 2008

Gate to Eternity, NY NY 2007

Brooklyn, NY 2005

East Village, NY 2009

East Village garden on  a rainy day

NY,NY 2009

East Village garden on a rainy Sunday afternoon,

NY.NY 2009

Sunday afternoon in the country (Harlem River Valley)

on the trail in Harlem River Valley

Brooklyn, 2005

I have been fascinated by postindustrial landscapes. They evoke such a loneliness and a feeling of decay.

Sunset, East River, NY 

the view from the Roof of Metropolitan Museum- sculpture by Roxy Paine

on our way to the waterfalls

hiking in Massachussets on Memorial Day weekend

Yayoi Kusama  at Gagosian Gallery.

To celebrate the artist eightieth birthday both Gagosian Gallery in New York and in Los Angeles present her work.

Aernout Mik opens his video installations at MoMA

Never mind the rain. From the morning the lines were formed  and  New Yorkers were waiting patiently to see the best of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival: Iranian "About Elly" dir. A. Farhadi, "North" by R. Langlo, "City Island" by R. de Felitta. 

I really enjoyed the Festival choice in documentary section: great "American Casino" dir. Leslie Cockburn about crumbling American economy; "Blank City" dir C. Dahnier presenting underground movie movement of 70ties and 80ties with  works of Jim Jarmush, Amos Poe, Susan Seidelman; "Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful" dir. P. Griffin;"Con Artist" dir. M. Sladek about a painter Mark Kostabi;"Defamation" dir. Yoav Shamir way to explore anti Semitism; very moving "The Lost Son of Havana" dir. J. Hock presenting life story of baseball star Luis Tiant; "Off and Running" dir N.Opper about adopted children; brasilian "Only When I Dance" dir. B. Finzi; "Partly private" dir.D.Elon personal view on circumsicion; "P-Star rising" dir G. Noble about hip-hop child star; "Yodok Stories" dir. A Fidyk about concentration camps in North Korea.

Director Leslie Cockburn  after the screening of her new documentary "American Casino". 

Movies fans waiting for the screening of "P-star Raising" at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

Uma Thurman, Spike Lee and Robert De Niro yesterday at the  official opening of 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

This year Festival (founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center) will present 85 features and 46 short film from 36 different countries.

"it's great to see how much the Festival has grown since we began in 2002 and how it has impacted the neighborhood" said Mr. De Niro. "We invite everyone to come to Tribeca to enjoy all that our Festival has to offer- from great film to industry gatherings to free community events."

Tonight- the newest  film of Woody Allen "Whatever Works" with Larry David and Patricia Clarkson opens the TFF at the Ziegfeld Theater.

Just come back from great production of August Wilson's play "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" in the Belasco Theater presenting the story of families of newly freed African slaves from South migrated to booming Pittsburgh in 1911. Very powerful performances by actors, great director Bartlett Sher and music by Taj Mahal. Extraordinary theatrical experience.

Sunday in the Central Park. It was such a beautiful day!

Early morning in Greenwich Village 

 Tribeca Film Festival will start next week. A lot of good movies!

New York, New York 2008

Fascinated images of the American West  from 1850 to 2008 at MoMA presented in the exhibit titled "Into the West". It brings the work of over 70 photographers like Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Carleton Watkins, Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Adam Bartos, Larry Clark, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, William Garnett. From 19 century landscapes (for example work of Carleton Watkins captured beauty of Yosemite Valley) and modern urban, industrial and rural landscapes of the West to portraits representing  a diversity of the West: Native Americans, cowboys, gold miners, drifters, starlets. In conjunction with the exhibition a series of films will be screened. I went to see fascinating  one minute long documentaries from 1984 presenting Sioux ghost dances,  one minute long  Anne Oakley shooting presentation and then film "Wild Bill Hickock" (1923) with William Hart accompanied by live piano music. Great experience. While watching the movies or looking at the photographic images I connected to my childhood memories: small town movie house in Poland and the westerns. World in Technicolor, amazing landscapes, gun fights, world of men ruled by violence and death.

Last Sunday my friend and I went to Harlem to visit small ju-jitsu dojo on 135 St. I am huge fun of martial arts. I love Hong Kong movies, often think about martial arts as a subject for the movies. I fall in love ten years ago with "Ashes of Time" by Wong Kar-Wai and saw it again last year- fascinated work! I also had been trained for couple of years in one of the Manhatan's many dojos and learn a lot about myself. Our visit in Harlem was interesting and inspirational. I met friend of my friend, a Lithuanian woman ( more the 10 years in martial arts), her husband (more then 20 years in aikedo) and her teachers. I was amazed by the atmosphere in this small basement dojo. I trained in huge school and there it was-totally different experience. The martial art there is not only about physical training  more about connection, friendship, family. One of the instructors spent whole life in the neighbourhood and from the way she talked about her community you can tell she loves it and puts a lot of work to create it. I listened to the stories about life: life in Lithuania, America, about community at 135 St, struggles and worries and successes. It was amazing afternoon.

Very intense last few days. First very vibrant and vital this year The Armory Show. Then yesterday the press opening of Art of the Korean Renaissance (1400-1600) presenting painting, ceramics, metalware and printed books at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts with its masterpieces like this magical landscape painted gold on the black silk by Yi Jing. The curator of the exhibition, a beautiful, young  Korean woman told us in details about history and art of this revolutionary period in Korean art and ended on very personal note telling about her travels: first to Korea, then from Seol by small plane, then taking a bus and then travel by foot in the mountains to the small village to confirm that one of the scrolls is original and now we have a chance to look at  it in Metropolitan. 

waiting for spring to come...

White Wall in the Sun, 2008

I am fascinated by the textures of brick walls. This picture is one of the series simple titled "Walls".