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".