Betty's Pub 20.1
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr
I hope I’m not being premature in starting this new Spring Flickr thread but today was a pretty beautiful day, albeit a little windy. I left the Winter coat home and just wore my sweatshirt and flannel shirt. And the hat and gloves of course. But still, it’s a start.
I had plans today to go into the City and see an exhibit of art by the cartoonist Drew Friedman. He is a caricaturist and has appeared in newspapers and magazines for years, most notably the New York Observer, a weekly newspaper. He has recently published a book of drawings of elderly Jewish comedians, and as they are all the people I grew up with I knew I would enjoy the exhibition. There is an article in The Forward with illustrations at this link if you want to know what I am talking about. http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/194694/meet-drew-friedman-picasso-of-old-jewish-comedians/
I wasn’t thrilled about the timing due to the fact that the Gallery doesn’t open until 12PM which is late in the day for me. I am truly a morning a person now and by 12PM I like to be heading back home to have my coffee and relax. And those who know me, know that I am a very routine person who does not like to have his routine altered. I joke about it, like I when I say I do my laundry every other Friday night and then add, not that I’m rigid! But I do like my routine. So I was already grumpy when I left but I was looking forward to the exhibit. I walked up to 128 East 63rd where the Society of Illustrators is located and arrived at 12:02 PM. The shades were drawn and I wondered if the guard was running late like with other venues I’ve visited. I waited a minute then I rang the bell. A minute later a man opened the door and told me the Gallery was closed due to another event involving MOCCA. I stepped back outside and just stood there for a moment and must have audibly cursed because there was a man standing right behind me and when he heard me he laughed and said, Me too! So I turned around and walked back to the Port Authority, annoyed. The reference to MOCCA was a sore point as for a while I had plans to visit The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art and when I finally decided to go I discovered it had closed. This was several years ago and I had to Google it to find that MOCCA is now a part of the Society and they have an annual show at the 69th Street Armory. Today as a matter of fact. So the only art I saw today was an article on John Singleton Copley that I read in the current Smithsonian. And all I accomplished was a long walk.
Today is April 5th and yesterday 0404 rolled around as it does each year and as it does each year it rolled me forward another year. 63 years in the bank now. Two years away from Medicare and either retirement or working from home. I’d like to retire but working from home for a few more years wouldn’t be bad as I could put off collecting social security which increases in amount the longer you wait and also continue saving for my retirement which would also be beneficial. Guess we will have to wait and see. Not anxious to quickly put another two years in the chronological bank as there is no withdrawal policy. Age doesn’t bother me that much although it’s still a little startling to see those age numbers in conjunction with my life. And I swear when I brush my teeth and look in the mirror I see the faces of the men who I made sandwiches for in my Father’s store when I was a teenager.
On an absolutely unrelated note I’ve always been aware of the musician Artie Shaw but I’d never paid attention to his music as its heyday was prior to my birth. Then I started listening to the Burns and Allen radio programs and one season they had Artie and his band as their orchestra. And I discovered they were really outstanding. Anyway, this is a 45 minute live concert of theirs from 1945 in which they play Gershwin, another favorite. Very pleasant music to have on while you do what ever it is you’re doing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r9gyxabuBc
So ends our trip down memory lane as we head over to Flickr central.
Andy G.
Amber Littlefeather
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transgender willy
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Priscilla drawing - ready for a man
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Katie's Progress Report...**2002 to >> 2014**
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Claymore
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7156166459_3b5e51095f_b Lisa Thomas is sitting on the coach wearing her beautiful wedding gown.
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angela or oleg (45,000+ views; 102+ favs)
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Blue Sailor Gurl
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Thanks for the link of jewish illustrations which i enjoyed reading about.As a jewish person myself and of your age era i truly enjoy the cartoons ,so this was a great link for me.
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Well as usual I enjoyed reading your post today and the referance to Burns & Allen brought back memories. I found some DVD's of their weekly shows in a bargain bin at a discount store a few years ago. They were $2 and of course black and white but they were great fun to watch. I had forgotten all about them until now. I will also check out the you tube link later as I do like Artie Shaw also.
Thanks once again for an interesting post to brighten my saturday evening.
Angela M.
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Hi,
Glad you both enjoyed the post. If anyone is interested in the old radio programs I've mentioned, there are a number of sources for tapes of the old shows. This link is for one of the best and has thousands of broadcasts, listed by artist, chronologically, which for me is the best way to listen as you can "watch" the artist developing his routine and cast. For instance I listen to Jack Benny and they have the first shows that Phil Harris and then Dennis Day appeared in. The only disappointment is that there are shows missing and some of them are truncated. But that's mostly the very early shows from the 1930's. This is the link. http://otrrlibrary.org/index.html
Andy G.
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I have always been a fan of both Jack Benny and Burns & Allen. The transition from radio to TV was especially good on The Burns & Allen Show. George leaning against the proscenium of the set and making comments about was had happened or about was was going to happen was brilliant. And Gracie's verbal and visual comedic skills were unmatched by anyone else short of Lucille Ball.
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And sometimes George would watch the show on television upstairs in his den, along with the viewers. In one episode I remember, he is watching what's going on and Harry Morton comments something to the effect that George seems to always know what they're doing. Immediately the phone rings and when Harry picks it up, it's George confirming that to be true.
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A brilliant use of the medium!
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Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember George watching the program on TV. Many years later Mel Brooks did a similar thing in Spaceballs, where they were watching the video of the movie as part of the movie. Here's the point where they are watching now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNIwlRClHsQ
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Congratulations! You're our first user to notice that we can now embed you-tube directly in our posts, & figured out how to do it.
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Thanks, Betty. Yes, I noticed the ability to embed the videos on another thread you did, and tried it here with the same bbcode tags as I use on another forum. When it worked in the preview, I figured it would also work on the post.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It is an absolutely, spectacularly beautiful day today. This morning as I passed the Meadowlands on the way to the City the temperature was 66 degrees. All I wore was my flannel shirt and I really didn’t need that but I wear it year round because I sometimes feel cold and with air conditioning I definitely feel a chill. I’m never sorry I brought it, I can always tie it around my waist if I get a little warm. So no complaints about the weather today. I will save those for the middle of the week when apparently it will be cool again and rainy. And I haven’t put the heavy coat in storage yet either.
Next week I journey down to the Jersey shore to visit my friends so the Flickr will be early and brief. I had considered baking a butterscotch cake to bring along this trip. I have been pulling recipes from newspapers for 25 years and when my Aunt was alive I was able to test them out as I baked on a regular basis. That is no longer the case but I pull them out nevertheless. Old habits die hard. In the recent Relish supplement to the Sunday newspaper they had a recipe for the butterscotch chiffon cake. It was a standard yellow cake with a buttercream frosting. I took inventory and saw that I needed to buy oil as the oil I had in the cabinet expired in 2011. And the eggs in my refrigerator are about four months old so I tossed them as well. But as the week progressed I was thinking of the cake and decided not to make it. What made up my mind is the calories that were noted about it. The end of the recipe said serves 20. It also said each portion was 380 calories. Or 7600 calories for the cake. Which is roughly 2 ½ days of a normal man’s diet. Of course no one is going to eat the whole cake. Well some might but I figure that it won’t be 20 servings, more like 10 or 12. And second helpings so I just thought, nah. The batter for the cake calls for 2 cups of brown sugar and the frosting calls for 2 2/3 cups. Almost five cups of sugar seems a bit much. So I’m making a very nice apple cake which I’ve made before and been pleased with.
I did an art double header today, something I don’t do much of any more as I like to get home early in the day as I’ve mentioned numerous times. But since the Society of Illustrators doesn’t open until 12PM and there was a Sotheby’s viewing today that I wanted to see I decided to take in both. I thought I would catch the 9AM bus which would get me into the City at 9:30AM. The website I use to plan subway and walking routes told me it would take me about an hour to walk to Sotheby’s up on York Avenue and 72nd Street. I figured I would arrive at 10:30 AM, be there an hour, then wander over to the Society and get there about 10 minutes before opening time. So I got to the bus stop a little before 9 and the bus finally arrived at 9:30AM, pulling into the Port Authority at 10AM. I was annoyed but it wasn’t a big deal. I walked up and as it turns out, since I’m a fast walker, I was there at 10:45AM. I took the elevator to the 6th Floor and took in the show. It was splendid.
It was American art and I liked just about everything they had on display. The majority of the items were by artists I was familiar with and the pieces by people I wasn’t familiar with were quite lovely as well. There were 3 items from Norman Rockwell who only in the last few years is enjoying the reputation as an artist he so richly deserves. For years he was described as an illustrator in a pejorative manner, as in “just” an illustrator, but he was really something special. There were two of his drawings, one the original artwork for an Aqua Velva ad and the other a drawing of a hunter in the forest with a dog. Both excellent representations. And again, putting quotes around reasonable, these drawings were expected to go for $5K to $7k dollars. Next to them was an oil study for Pittsford Main Street which was very non representative of his precise style. It was a city street with buildings, much in the manner of Edward Hopper, without his usual distinct lines. Very warming and pleasant. The range for this one was $200K to $300K. I think all of them will go for more. There are a lot of famous Rockwell collectors, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg to name two. There were paintings by magazine artists as well such as J.C. Leyendecker and others whose names were unfamiliar to me. These were paintings that would eventually become magazine covers. And they had a really wonderful oil painting of a newsstand, probably in the 1920’s, by the cartoonist Harrison Cady. He illustrated a daily story by Thornton Burgess called Bedtime Stories which appeared for 4 decades in the New York Tribune and also wrote and illustrated Peter Rabbit for the same publication for close to 30 years. This had a range of $5K-$7K as well and if I ever considered bidding at Sotheby’s it would be for this. I would love to wake up to this every day and see it on my wall. You see things at auctions that you rarely see elsewhere and as I’ve said, unless a museum buys it, you will never see it again. Grant Wood is famous for his American Gothic painting which I think everyone in the United States is familiar with even if they don’t know the name or the artist’s name. It’s iconic. Here’s a link. http://tinyurl.com/ordymar In the 15 years more or less that I’ve been going to museums on a regular basis I have seen one other Grant Wood in a museum. It was his “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” I looked it up and it’s in the Metropolitan Museum although I’m fairly certain I saw it at another venue. The auction had a Grant Wood interior which was quite nice and it was listed at a range of $10K-$15K.
I think you can tell that I really enjoyed this exhibit. The last time I was at Sotheby’s the exhibit was on the seventh floor which is enormous. This was on the sixth floor which I discovered was much smaller. So I worked through the exhibit in about 40 minutes. When I finished it was about 11:20 AM which gave me 40 minutes to get to the Society which wasn’t that far away. So I sat in the lobby and read my newspaper for a little while before getting up and heading over. For those weekly Flickr readers you may remember that I arrived there last week at 12:02 PM only to discover the gallery was closed, hence the return this week. This week I arrived at 11:48 AM and the gallery was open. I walked in and asked the admissions clerk if the gallery was open and he said yes. I paid my admission and asked him the circumstances for the early opening. He told me it was brunch day and they opened an hour earlier. That was a little annoying as I would have come right over from Sotheby’s had I known. So they got me both weeks but I didn’t really mind today as the Drew Friedman show was excellent.
There must have been a hundred of his drawings, all from this three books on old Jewish comedians. Can’t think of too many he missed. Don’t think my young co-workers, present and past, would have known many though. There were really only a handful that I wasn’t very familiar with and those were comedians who had spent their careers in the Catskills working the borsch belt of hotels and clubs. The card next to each drawing listed their original names and gave a little précis of their careers. On Rodney Dangerfield’s card it was mentioned that after he passed away and was buried, the headstone read, Rodney Dangerfield, there goes the neighborhood. Talk about a big finish. There were several of the Marx brothers, together and separately. One was of the fourth and fifth Marx brothers, Gummo and Zeppo. Gummo was in the early act but quit before they started working on the stage and in movies. Zeppo was in the first five films then retired from acting to work with Gummo as an agent. Zeppo played the romantic lead in the films he made with them but his card pointed out that he could imitate Groucho better than Groucho himself. Lots of interesting tidbits about all the comedians and their actual names were listed as well as their stage names. Very few of them kept their original names. Last week I linked to article on him in the Forward newspaper. This is a link to his website. http://drewfriedman.net/index.html And this is a link to his blog with a few of the Jewish comedians and lots of other interesting pictures and memorabilia. http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/ The exhibit also had samples from his collection of old TV Guides, records, books and games, all having to do with the comedians. There was a theater playing the records as well. While I visited they played Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks doing the 2000 year old man routine which is very funny. This was followed by Eddie Lawrence, the old philosopher, who just passed away last week at the age of 95.
Well, I really rattled on there didn’t I. But I’m always eager to share my enjoyment of art with everyone and I this, for me, was a double treat day.
Next week will more than likely be a little terser. More than likely.
Andy G.
Formal Chanelle (93)
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With my sissy,Samantha...
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No i don't wear tutu's
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hideo 01
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Will in his new pretty dress
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Mädchen im dirndl
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Dirty Washing R
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Lacy Blue
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Sissy Anne Taylor (221)
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Well, last Saturday was a beautiful day and today certainly looks to be a beautiful day but the week in between, oh boy! Wednesday morning on my way into the Big Apple, the Meadowlands clock read 27 degrees. April 16th, 27 degrees, what’s wrong with this picture? And it snowed, although in my neck of the woods it was just frost on the ground and ice on the cars. I was clearly optimistic when I opened up the Spring Flickr.
Anyway, I am going to the Jersey shore to visit with friends and I have made the apple cake as I mentioned which from appearances seems to have turned out very nicely. Hopefully my friends will agree.
I had the great fortune to have yesterday off and despite it being a cold, blustery day, I went into the City and walked up to the National Academy of Design at 89th Street and Fifth Avenue and took in an exhibition of the Swedish artist Anders Zorn. He wasn’t someone I was familiar with and my brother told he was considered a minor artist but I liked what I had seen on the website and decided to go. Very glad I did. His reputation may not be outstanding now but at the turn of the 20th Century he was considered a rival of John Singer Sargent and from what I saw he held his own. When asked if he considered Sargent a rival Zorn said no, he thought they were comrades and they were indeed friends. It was an enormous exhibition and Zorn worked in every genre, watercolors, oils, etchings and even did some modeling, wood with a bronze patina. All of it was very beautiful. One of the watercolors, Summer Vacation, depicted a couple, a man in a boat and a woman on the dock, on shimmering water that rippled. It was magnificent and looked like a photograph. I only now just discovered that this was a traveling exhibition, it was in San Francisco earlier in the year. This is a link to a nice description of the show and also an illustration of Summer Vacation. http://deyoung.famsf.org/press-room/anders-zorn-swedens-master-painter
His oil paintings were magnificent as well. Portraits of eminent persons such as President Grover Cleveland and fashionable women, such as Isabella Stewart Gardner, she of the eponymously named museum in Boston. And Elizabeth Sherman Cameron, a niece of William Tecumseh Sherman and second wife of James Cameron, who served as secretary of war for Ulysses Grant and as a senator for 20 years. He painted a remarkable likeness which she wasn’t overly fond of as he captured her “frosty” personality so well. I think you can see her feelings when you view the illustration. http://www.artilim.com/artist/zorn-anders/portrait-of-elizabeth-sherman-cameron/ It’s even more distinctive in real life. There is a wonderful self portrait of Zorn in the show in a bright red coat, filling the frame with his bulk. There were three wonderful Sargent’s in the show as well, portraits of Edward Darley Boit, Claude Monet and a self-portrait. And wonderful etchings of interiors and street scenes and notable person such as the sculptor Rodin and the poet Verlaine.
I’m glad I followed my instinct in thinking this was to my taste as I thoroughly enjoyed my visit.
Let’s see, I think I mentioned being terse this week in last week’s Flickr. Guess I must have been thinking of something else. Actually I thought I would be busy as I will be heading out in a few hours but as it turns out there wasn’t much to do so I was able to expound a little on art, one of my favorite topics as regular readers know.
Hope everyone has a great day today.
Andy G.
The GLBT Expo at the Javits center, This group just gravitated togrther!
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Cheerleader
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Ben getting ready for Genderbender
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NEW VIDEO
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man in a dress
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christmas comes early for all trannykind:
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Green lace and taffeta
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dresser mates 06
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day247-0510 Wine Red Wedding Dress
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Frilly Polish dress with killer heels
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special young friend Jeffwey
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I feel that tradition urges me to address the weather so I shall. Winter does not want to go away. Betty has been writing about what it is like in her neck of the woods and while not as extreme here it continues to baffle me. Thursday and Friday morning it was 39 degrees as I passed the Meadowlands on my way to work. It warms up somewhat but not much past the high 50’s, sometimes venturing into the 60’s but there is no sustained warmth. This morning when I went to the store at 7AM it was in the low 40’s and by the time I was in the City around 11AM it was still only 54 degrees. Warmed up a little more later in the day but the ten day forecast continues to show the day beginning in the low 40’s. C’mon, it’s almost May for crying out loud. I’d like to put the Winter coat back in the closet.
Anyway, I had a pleasant morning. I went into the City to Christies, another art auction house, this one on 49th Street in Rockefeller Center. I’ve been there before, it’s a quick walk from the Port Authority. This was for an auction of European art with a few things American thrown in. It was a small show with mostly minor artists. Still it was enjoyable. There was a wonderful portrait by John Singer Sargent of Mrs. William George Raphael which was being auctioned off by her descendants. A pencil drawing by Winslow Homer which had a range of $250 to $350K. It’s very nice but I will not be bidding. Other notable artists were Bouguereau, Courbet and Corot, no blockbusters in this lot but all quite beautiful.
That’s pretty much all I have to report today. This must be the terse email I was expecting last week.
Andy G.
cd-1
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Men in dresses are something spectacular.
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4967 Irish Faery
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Howard Ave. Meth. Church Men's Club
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FELICIA IN WONDERLAND
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Princess Peach
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rebecca
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Opaques and three skirts 2
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French Maid 7
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Womanless Beauty Pageant
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Tech work
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Another odd week for weather, some more chill and lots of rain but today was another rather beautiful day. It’s May and I certainly hope the weather is headed in the right direction, that is, warm moving to hot.
Anyway I confess to being a little pooped, I did a remarkable amount of walking today. I did an art doubleheader visiting two auction houses. I had initially planned on visiting Sotheby’s today as they had an Impressionist viewing and then this morning my big brother told me that Christie’s had an Impressionist viewing, in addition to some American and European art and Dutch drawings. So I decided to visit both. Of course the thread of Andy G’s visits never runs too smoothly and this was no exception. I went to Christie’s site to check the hours and Google said it was closed this weekend. When I got to the site it showed the viewing. So I dialed their phone number. I didn’t expect anyone to be there as it was 7AM in the morning and the message came on and said that they were closed. It also gave a 24 hour emergency number if you had an issue. I went back to the computer and looked again and it certainly did show viewings today and tomorrow. So I called the emergency number and woke up a guard and asked about the viewing and he had to check with a supervisor but it turned out that the gallery was open. So I left the house around 8AM to take the bus into the City and walk over to Christie’s.
I got there at 9:01 AM and the door was locked but there was a guard behind it and when he saw me he motioned me to move to another door. I did and the guard opened the door and an employee of the gallery immediately put out his hand and said, Mr. so and so? I said, no, I was only here for the art. I had to laugh as he had mistaken me for a client who was coming in to discuss the purchase of items in the auction. It shows that it doesn’t matter what you look like nowadays, anyone can be someone with the kind of money to have auction employees defer to them. And rightly so, Hetty Green was known as the Witch of Wall Street at the turn of the 20th Century and was reputedly the world’s richest woman. But she didn’t present a very appealing mien. She was also a world class miser and wore a single black dress and the same underwear until it fell apart but she certainly would have been able to buy anything in this auction, if not all of it. It really doesn’t pay to judge anyone by their appearance, years ago Janis Joplin went into a department store with several thousand dollars in her handbag looking to buy clothes as I remember and the clerks didn’t want to serve this odd looking woman in the hippie outfit.
But I digress, unfortunately when I apprised them of my not being the mystery caller they informed me that the gallery didn’t open until 10AM and that I should come back then. I guess I wasn’t paying attention to the times listed on the website. So I wandered up to Sotheby’s but got there a little early so I sat and read my newspaper for 15 minutes until I thought they would let me in.
Once again there were a lot of very nice things, and far more noted artists than my last visit but nothing that took my breath away. The one thing I saw that I really took notice of was a surprise. Ingres is one of my favorite artists, his portraits are exquisite, there is one in the Frick and one in the Met that I always have to stand in front of and marvel at and he painted hundreds of these wonderful masterpieces. But he considered this his day job, something to put bread on the table so to speak. What he felt would be his legacy was his religious paintings. Those have been forgotten as not being near the quality of the portraits. And Sotheby’s had one of his religious paintings, Mary with the infant Jesus. And… it was very pedestrian and not exciting at all. The colors in his portraits glow and the fabrics hang in remarkable ways, not flat and one dimensional which is what this painting showed me. So, back to Christie’s.
The first thing I saw was an Edward Hopper watercolor of a blue boat. Very nice. A rather large Pieter Brueghel the Younger, The Procession to Calvary, equally nice. Then, side by side a Guardi view of the Doge’s palace and a Canaletto view of a London Street. Two of my favorite artists with excellent representations. This was a big show with lots of big names and big price tags. These were paintings that were going to be auctioned off for millions and tens of millions of dollars. A lovely Modigliani of a young man, several Mary Cassatt’s, a fabulous large canvas of The Grand Canyon by Thomas Moran, sadly, a rather dark Van Gogh, not one of his better efforts. A number of beach paintings by Boudin who I am fond of. Simple scenes of people on the beach with the ocean in the background, usually with a dog or two and children running around. Wonderful works that were going to go for between $50 and $70K. My brother mentioned that they were auctioning off some of Huguette Clark’s paintings. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Huguette Clark, she was an heiress who left behind $300 million dollars. She had no children and no close relatives. She died at the age of 104 years having spent the last 20 years of her life living in a hospital. Not because she was sick, but because she liked living there. There was an enormous battle over the estate with distant relatives coming out of the woodwork to try and snatch pieces of the estate away from the many organizations that received bequests. It is a fascinating story. This is a link to her obituary in the NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/nyregion/huguette-clark-recluse-heiress-dies-at-104.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
This is a link to a description of the items in the auction, 3 Renoir’s, Monet’s Nympheas which may go for $35 million, and works by John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase. These are beautiful, quality paintings which I have no doubt will engender a bidding war. Hopefully whoever is the winner of each of them will allow them to be loaned, display and finally bequeathed to a museum.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/05/02/huguette-clarks-monet-ready-for-auction/
This is link to the Christie’s brochure which discusses all the items being auctioned off.
http://www.christies.com/presscenter/pdf/2014/ClarkFamilyTreasures_2014.pdf
I next visited the Dutch drawings which were top quality and very enjoyable, aside from a small rather non-descript Rembrandt and several by Hendrick Goltzius, none of the artists were especially well known but everything I saw was wonderful. There were many other interesting and beautiful things but I will only mention two more. I haven’t come across many Andrew Wyeth’s but there was a wonderful painting of several houses on a street which depict his mother’s birthplace which was really very nice. Quiet and charming. And a rather perky watercolor by Salvador Dali which looks like doodles but was able to transcend that. Dali, like Warhol, is sometimes a little hard to take as they were both frequently motivated more by money than art and weren’t above having employees create art which they then signed to give it a much higher value since it was being represented as their work. But many of their original works stand up and are pleasant to view.
So, my really long walk was a result of my misunderstanding of the Christie’s opening time which meant my having to walk back to the Port Authority instead of taking the bus and subway. Must have hiked 5 or 6 miles today. But definitely worth it.
Next week, another adventure, Princeton.
Andy G.
Wes in drag
https://www.flickr.com/photos/104546207@N08/14021374464
Halloween in drag
https://www.flickr.com/photos/104546207@N08/14017834851
Danger/ Caution
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sexykellie/13741284543
Sissy Terry Keily The Bunny
https://www.flickr.com/photos/46491525@N07/13825396164
Cousin Dress Up
https://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalfeminist/14045585164
SPP-SquareDancer1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8072809@N05/496593464
Lingerie (High And Magic)_5
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trans_kyoko/13868693364
284
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91894461@N07/13889365913
Car wash in high heels
https://www.flickr.com/photos/95326358@N06/13877356524
Successful Princess Brunch with the Snow White and the 7 Drag Queens cast!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagophoenix/13837971075
Megateen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hdi1998/13879311404
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I like to look at other photos in the streams of Andy's posts. In the same set as Cousin Dress Up, I found this one that really caught my eye (probably because I'm a bit jealous).
Pretty Party Dress (https://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalfeminist/14023888661/)
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Hi Alison,
Yes, that's one of my favorites, it's been around for some time. I could have posted all the pictures in the folder but I always assume that readers of the Flickr will explore the folders of the pictures I post, if they find those pictures interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Andy G.
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Comment :
Hi Alison,
Yes, that's one of my favorites, it's been around for some time. I could have posted all the pictures in the folder but I always assume that readers of the Flickr will explore the folders of the pictures I post, if they find those pictures interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Andy G.
Some readers here may not be so inquisitive about exploring the folders for MORE pictures but take note that when you are viewing the one picture that
is opened upon clicking the link look to the left and right of the photos for the < and > and click on those devices for viewing more pictures from the same
source. It can get very interesting from the plain vanilla photo that is first displayed !
Thanks Andy for your continued work in these postings !
BabyLock
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I was very brave today and took the train to Princeton. This was an adventure as it involved two train changes and a walk from Princeton Junction to the art museum on campus. I have to consider it a successful trip as I managed to find my way home. I really had a splendid time, they were predicting scattered showers today, and it must have poured last night, but it turned out to be a beautiful, warm, sunny day, although it was absolutely pouring just a little while ago. I caught the 7:59 AM train to Secaucus and transferred to the Princeton Junction train. Then took the DINKY shuttle to the campus. I’ve been to Princeton before but I didn’t really remember it. I realized afterwards that it was because they were doing all sorts of construction between the train station and the campus. I managed to find the museum though. I stopped a few students along the way but I was always walking in the right direction. Got there 10 minutes before they opened. The exhibit was titled “500 Years of Italian Master Drawings.” It consisted of almost 100 pieces from their extensive collection of 1,000 drawings, all very rare and very beautiful. Two Michelangelo drawings, lots of Il Guercino, Tiepolo, Salvator Rosa and others, some of whom I was unfamiliar with.
This is a link to the museum website description of the exhibit, with illustrations.
http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/story/InDepth-500-Years-of-Italian-Master-Drawings-from-the-Princeton-University-Art-Museum
This is another link to the website which discusses Guercino and his caricatures. Be sure to click on the rare album link which is a book of his drawings. It takes a little while to appear on the screen.
http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/story/guercino-caricatures
There was an Edvard Munch exhibit as well composed of his prints, all of which were from MOMA. Many of you will know Munch for his iconic painting, “The Scream.”
I also hadn’t remembered what a nice selection there is in their permanent collection, a very eclectic group, most notable European and American artists are represented. And the quality is truly fine. I went back through my emails as I was curious and discovered I first went to Princeton the Friday after Thanksgiving, 2004, so it’s almost 10 years ago. It was for an American art exhibit and my comments about it said that it was a bit disappointing but that the permanent collection made up for it. It’s still wonderful.
I’m very glad I went. The trip home went smoothly as well.
Andy G.
Jorge in one of his princess dresses playing soccer with a coconut with Wendy.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34765823@N00/13905184079
P1010406
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34765823@N00/14111898793/
Screen cap from YouTube video of 1966 womanless wedding in Ralls, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79284543@N00/13804346774
Flipe Kikee - New Yorks Next Top Drag Queen - The Metropolitan Room - NYC - 2014
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pdproductions/13885055915
Flared Denim Mini 3
https://www.flickr.com/photos/amberjolake/13878062694
Sweet And Girly
https://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalfeminist/14045125745
Knock knock who's there?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/starrynowhere/13914619491
happy easter
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cheryl416/13931315406
White Angora Sweater 1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonsweater/13931410551
OS - Dave in drag
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76785764@N02/13913530362
Blue
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisabacchae/13973392613
No, not a cheer costume or a ballet one can only hope
https://www.flickr.com/photos/12341876@N05/13890829755
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Since most of you are not familiar with the DINKY, here is a brief explanation.
The Northeast Corridor rail line, which links Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC, passes within 3 miles from downtown Princeton. To reach Princeton, you must transfer at the Princeton Junction stop in West Windsor NJ (and very near to Grover's Mills, the site of Orson Wells' 1939 Martian Landing), There you take a 1 or 2 car shuttle train for 2.9 miles (4.7 km) to reach Princeton, about a 5 minute ride. This is the shortest scheduled commuter line in the United States.
The locals have nicknamed the Princeton Shuttle "the dinky" or sometimes the PJ&B for Princeton Junction and Back (a word play of course on PB&J, peanut butter and jelly or jam).
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It’s another beautiful day, after another remarkable rainstorm, and I am heading to the Newark Museum today to take in a Norman Rockwell exhibit. I’m bringing a friend and treating her to dinner and my apple cake for dessert, hence the early and brief flickr.
Not much to say aside from my increasing irritation with Flickr, which judging by their discussion board does not put me in the minority. They have made the search incredibly tedious. The advance search only works on the first term. Every time you change the term you have to go back into advanced and set the parameters. Quotation marks don’t work. And they have a hovering button over the advanced button so that every time you move the mouse, if you’re off by a micron the other button jumps out. Remarkably annoying.
On that grumpy note I will wish all a great weekend.
Andy G.
Tinkerbell at the Savoy #2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8072809@N05/2602678992
Cosplay: Then and Now!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rgaines/13983072243
Risque Cecilia (with Boots) 5
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rjrgmc28/13999681932
boy ballerina
https://www.flickr.com/photos/106822154@N02/14020405835
boys in newspaper - dressed.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8695376@N03/14069120902
pink satin dress 1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/irene-michaela/14073127903
show us the full skirted look slut-maid..
https://www.flickr.com/photos/31608963@N06/13985524276
Father Son Dresses
https://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalfeminist/13978420420/
A cutie princess 3D
https://www.flickr.com/photos/annexxxcdscotland/14029441094
Peter Pan in drag
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sexycostume/2781665451
lollipop sucker
https://www.flickr.com/photos/121048857@N03/13953772867
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Today was a little brisk with a few scattered showers, not the warm day I anticipated. Last night we were inundated with rain, lots of flooding not to mention tremendous thunder and lightning. The lightning struck One World Trade Center as you can see in these remarkable clips. http://gothamist.com/2014/05/24/photo_videos_lightning_strikes_worl.php#.
But the balance of our Memorial Day weekend is forecast to be splendid and give me the warmth I so desire.
It was a quiet day for me; I went into the City early and walked down to Astor Place to get my hair cut. Bought almonds at Trader Joes and was surprised they had gone up from $4.99 a pound to $5.99 a pound. A 20% increase in what I think is less than six months. Good thing there’s no inflation. Also went to Kmart to see if I could find a pair of comfortable shoes and was disappointed that I couldn’t. None of my shoes fit well, quite often chafing the back of my foot. And I don’t have a specific size. Depending on the shoe it can be anywhere from 8 to 9, narrow or wide.
Last week I took a friend to the Newark Museum for a Norman Rockwell exhibit. I’ve always liked his work, I’ve seen several of his exhibitions now and each one has been different in one way or another. I would greatly enjoy going to the museum in Stockbridge but it’s difficult to get to without driving and I’m not up to the drive. But this was really a great show. It opens in a separate room with all 323 of his Saturday Evening Post covers in chronological order. Then in the next room are a number of the original oil paintings on which the covers were based. They are of course much larger and the colors are much brighter and the images come off the canvas as opposed to the magazine covers which lay flat. There was a very interesting section on his creation of a Look Magazine illustration on the murder of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, the three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. It included his photos, sketches, letters to and from the editor and the final piece which was not done in his usual style. Very moving. It was really a magnificent show.
They have a wonderful permanent collection as well, very strong on American art and for this visit, for the first time, I went up to the third floor and saw the Asian collection. It had many beautiful pieces in it from all of the Asian cultures. We stayed at the museum for four hours.
I pretty much always get lost leaving the museum. This time was no different but at least I realized my mistake. When we left the museum we were looking for a bus stop and it was in the opposite direction from the bus terminal. We got to where it should have been and couldn’t find it. Instead of giving up and walking back to the terminal we kept walking as I assumed I would find the next bus stop. An incorrect assumption as it turned out. We finally asked some cops if they knew where a bus stop was or the bus terminal. They didn’t know where the stop was but reminded me the terminal was a 15 minute walk back the way we came.
We had arrived at the Broad Street train station and they pointed out we could take the train back to our town or we could take the light rail back to the bus terminal. We went into the train station and found it completely unmanned with no open ticket booth or information desk. I wasn’t confident I knew which train to take so we left and I guessed we would walk. Just then the light rail pulled in and I walked over to see if we could buy tickets on board. The driver said no, we needed to get the tickets from a machine. He pointed to where it was located but also looked at his watch and said we probably wouldn’t have time to go there and back. Then he waved his hand and told us to just get on board. A very nice gesture. Once on board I also remembered that the light rail is run on an honor system. You buy tickets but no one collects them. Occasionally they’ll have an agent on the train and if you’re caught you have to buy a ticket and I think pay a fine. So he took us to the bus terminal and I thanked him again for his largesse.
We got off the light rail and walked into the bus terminal and I had no idea where to go to find the gate. I was again looking for an information booth when I saw a police store which I headed to wondering if it was manned. But on the way I saw a young woman in a NJ transit outfit walking by eating a pizza. So I stopped her and when I told her I was looking for the bus, she asked me where I was going and what bus number I wanted. When I explained she said we should follow her. As we were walking I asked what gate it was and she said, you can follow me, I’m the driver. What are the odds of running into the driver of the bus you’re looking for? I laughed and said, I guess the appropriate response from me is, imagine running into you here. So that was a bonus and we ultimately made our way home. Any trip that I can find my way home from has to be considered a success.
Hope everyone enjoys the rest our weekend.
Andy G.
Rimbaud Shirt +
https://www.flickr.com/photos/silverhalogenide/4746116144/in/set-72157604578069070
Jacob after being dressed-up by his sister.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/n74jrw/13949740824
Really Pinkie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22092915@N05/14057407543
#Thailand #Phuket #SimonCabaret #ladyboy #fun
https://www.flickr.com/photos/117493545@N06/14004578143
PIC - 040903 K Sleep - Me in a dress...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/simpsdj/14046877114
9 Room for two
https://www.flickr.com/photos/janegeetgirl/14129115955
Jade
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgvintagepix/14139924253
Chanelle (113)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/115936139@N08/14116141251
SchoolGirl21
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tawnibonds/13928763177
transvestite
https://www.flickr.com/photos/111227158@N03/13936502119
Yellow dress means summer time!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/13219604@N03/14114419023
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Andy...an interesting thing about Rockwell's original Saturday Evening Post covers.
Several years ago I worked with the the Post people on a display of life size 3-D replications of some of Rockwell's covers.
Prior to that experience I had seen a showing in Atlanta of all of his works, minus many of the originals.
I asked the Post people why all of the originals were not shown.
The answer was that Rockwell would bring his finished oil into the office, often not even dry. A photo would be taken for printing the cover and then the original would be left leaning against a wall in some hallway. Many of the originals just disappeared, probably taken home by office workers.
Just imagine the value of many Rockwell originals now in private homes or worse stored in someone's attic.
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Hi,
One thing that has always bugged me about Rockwell's art is that for years it was denigrated as being the work of an illustrator not an artist. This is true of many wonderful artists such as NC Wyeth, father of Andrew Wyeth, who illustrated children's books and magazines aside from his paintings. This has only changed in recent years with Rockwell now receiving some of the acclimation he so richly deserves. This may also be attributed to the fact that he is being collected by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. The prices for his paintings have sky rocketed although there is still the prejudice against him in some quarters. This is an article from the NY Times which discusses it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/business/norman-rockwell-captures-the-art-markets-eye.html?emc=eta1
I'm sure that many of Rockwell's works were taken home by employees or anyone who had access and he gave away many of them. This work was considered disposable like the original artwork for comic books and the old pulps. I've mentioned seeing several exhibits of paintings that were designs for the front covers of Pulp magazines and they were brilliant. Only a small amount of them remain intact because the publishers would just throw them away. Art is in the eye of the beholder but sometimes that eye is blind to the beauty of what it's looking at.
Andy G.
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Andy - Here is something I ran across a few years ago. Description to follow. TTFN, Barb
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Take a look at http://www.oocities.org/toontime1492/toon5.html.
The header reads:
Satire
A Norman Rockwell Revelation
(It's a gag okay?!?)
P.S. When I brought up the image via Google, I got the following warning:
This Page is an outdated, user-generated website brought to you by an archive.It was mirrored from Geocities at the end of October, 2009.
For any questions concerning this page try to contact the respective author. (To report any malicious content send the URL to oocities(at gmail dot com). For question about the archive visit: OoCities.org.
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Hi,
I've always liked this one myself.
Andy G.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It was a beautiful day today but I erred in thinking it was going to be rather warm when the forecast said the temperature was in the 60’s. It was but there was a stiff wind blowing and I regretted not wearing my flannel shirt almost from the moment I got to the bus stop. Don’t know what I was thinking as I wear it almost all the time. And I wound up leaving my pair of roll up sunglasses on the bus, something that wouldn’t have happened if I was wearing the flannel shirt as they would have been in the pocket. I like them because I can wear them under my regular glasses and they fold up and go in my pocket when the sun goes down. I went to Amazon and found them, they were 3 pair for $9.99 with a shipping charge of $5.18. I was at the checkout when I decided to see if I had other options. I read the reviews and someone pointed out that they had purchased a pack of 100 for .35 cents each. So I Googled it and found someone on EBAY selling them for .99 cents each with $3.17 shipping. I bought 3 pair and saved myself some money.
I visited the Metropolitan Museum and saw the current Goya exhibit. It’s a small grouping of five paintings, two from the Met’s permanent collection and one each from Cleveland, Spain and a private collection. It’s remarkable to find a painting like the one in the exhibition in private hands. I know the Met would love to get it in a bequest. The theme of the exhibit is that all five paintings are of members of the Altamira family of Spain. This is the first time the paintings have been reunited for viewing. The husband and wife in separate portraits and three portraits of their children, all boys. The Boy in Red is from the Met’s permanent collection and is arguably one of its most famous paintings. The other painting from the collection is of the mother, La Condesa, holding her infant daughter. You can view all five paintings at this link to the Met’s website. http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/goya If you click on each thumbnail it opens up to full screen and has details about each painting. This is a link to an article in the NY Times that discusses the exhibition and also illustrates the five paintings. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/arts/design/metropolitan-show-reunites-goya-portraits-of-the-altamiras.html It was a very nice little show.
Afterwards I walked over and visited the Japanese pavilion. I’ve been there enough times now that I recognized a few of the items as being on display on earlier visits. Disappointed that there were no color wood block prints but the screens and scrolls were very beautiful. One of the best things I’ve done is become a member of the Met, I certainly get my money’s worth.
Now let’s look at the fruits of my weekly search.
Andy G.
Superbe brolita
https://www.flickr.com/photos/93909046@N07/14120655962
sweetness and innocence itself..
https://www.flickr.com/photos/31608963@N06/14130177071
Carla's Halloween Party - Saturday Night San Jose
https://www.flickr.com/photos/68027761@N00/2996429525
DSCI0550
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44425851@N05/13961116900
Punishment might be tutu much!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60741642@N06/13988135757
Showing his Feminine Side
https://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalfeminist/14125853685
Lingerie (High And Magic)_14
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trans_kyoko/14015494313
transvestite
https://www.flickr.com/photos/111227158@N03/14173797653
short pink
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cheryl416/13953926707
transvestite
https://www.flickr.com/photos/111227158@N03/13946212928
Harajuku Cosplayers in Drag
https://www.flickr.com/photos/_scifience/460662833
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It’s a beautiful day today, no complaints. I will save those for Monday when rain is forecast.
I went into New York City today and walked up to the Frick Museum and saw a very small installation, two paintings by the 16th Century Italian artist, Francesco Mazzola, known as Parmigianino after his native city of Parma. This is a rare treat as “Schiava Turca” rarely leaves its home in Parma and this its first trip to the United States. The woman in the painting is unknown but is clearly a woman with a lot of confidence, painted with a half-smile, almost a smirk, and gowned beautifully in blue with a turban on her head, and holding an ostrich feather fan. The other painting is “Portrait of a Man”, showing a well-dressed man seemingly interrupted in his reading as he is holding his place in his book with this fingers. The exhibit is in the Frick’s oval room and is rounded out with three magnificent paintings from their permanent collection, two by Titian and one by Bronzino. Below are two links, one to the Frick website where you can see illustrations of all the paintings discussed if you click on each of the individual links. And a second link to the NY Times article about the exhibit.
http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/parmigianino
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/arts/design/parmigianinos-schiava-turca-comes-to-the-frick.html?_r=0
Visiting the Frick is always a treat and I wandered through the rest of the permanent collection visiting with the paintings like seeing old friends. I was disappointed that the two of the Vermeers which had been moved into the West Gallery to hang on either side of the third Vermeer, “Woman with a Maid,” have been returned to their original spots in a hallway. I think “Woman with a Maid” is arguably one of the most beautiful paintings ever and the three together made a wonderful viewing experience. There are very few Vermeers in existence so it’s a wonder to me why they keep two of them in a hallway but I guess Mr. Frick had his reasons. There was also an exhibit of bronze sculpture which was entertaining. As with Japanese art I am slowly starting to appreciate sculpture as well.
Class over, you may return to your Flickrs now.
Andy G.
Weard boys
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79764648@N02/7440162106
202911610403985
https://www.flickr.com/photos/genexion3/421137164
Asian sissy French maid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/louanncd/3168901568
Fasching 2014 120
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91868979@N08/14207140963
SISSY
https://www.flickr.com/photos/defekto/30901722
Dressed for the Ceremony
https://www.flickr.com/photos/silvergold/14292790816
Apr18CG1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/zara_pvcslut/13954114968
Lanesboro Museum, MN 7.2010
https://www.flickr.com/photos/redbat/4780073377
Several pictures
https://www.flickr.com/photos/104546207@N08/12572240614
P1020077
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mjjk28/8608190628
Mica - New Yorks Next Top Drag Queen - The Metropolitan Room - NYC - 2014 (This is a great slide show, be sure to keep clicking on the right.)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pdproductions/13950254927
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Another beautiful day today after a week with lots of rain. I guess if we have to have rain, and I guess that we have to, having it rain during the week is preferable to the weekend. This will not stop me from complaining about it during my commute. Oh to be finished with my commuting. Hopefully in another 18 months if things work the way I hope they do.
Not really a lot to say today. I went into New York and walked up to the Metropolitan Museum. I visited the Lehman wing for two small exhibitions. Actually three small exhibitions except when I got to the room for the third there was a wall where the door should be. That certainly stopped me but before I queried the guard I looked at the Met List of current exhibits and duly noted it wasn’t slated to open until June 30th. I will return after that date. On exhibit was Italian Renaissance drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection. This consisted of 42 drawings from 15th and 16th Century Italian artists from the permanent collection which aren’t usually on display. A few names I was familiar with and a number of new ones; the theme was how the art of drawing progressed. This is a link to the Met website with a discussion of the exhibit.
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/italian-renaissance-drawings At the bottom of the screen you can click on “View all Objects” and a new page will open showing all the drawings. Two that particularly caught my eye were a drawing of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci and a delicately beautiful landscape by Fra Bartolomeo. It’s always interesting to look at the provenance of art, that is, how it moved from the artist to the person who last acquired it. In the case of the Leonardo, it says he drew it in the mid to late 1480’s but the first sale date is June 8, 1860 to a private collector. It subsequently passed through a few hands although there are no details, until Robert Lehman acquired it from Schaeffer Galleries in February 1945. It makes me wonder where it was for the almost 400 years between his creating it and its sale in 1860.
The second exhibit was The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy British Art and Design. Also consisting of works from the permanent collection. This consisted of drawings and paintings by artists and poets such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and several others. It’s hard to work up a lot of enthusiasm about these items and the only way for me to describe them is to they are different from other styles of art that I enjoy. This doesn’t really signify anything but I can’t find a better way to express myself. This is a link to the Met website with a discussion of the exhibit and once again you can click on “View all objects” to see the items in the collection. Please do so as I would be interested in what you think. http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/preraphaelite-legacy
Well, I think I kept this to a not really much to say length, for me anyway. On to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
CV cast 2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10474062@N07/14376366515
Sweet Lolita 7 (Brolita)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22979184@N05/5920970415
Sissy 49
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42427951@N05/14217537052
Me being me :) hugs
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44425851@N05/14205616762
Crossdresser Louann - Hobble skirt
https://www.flickr.com/photos/empresslouann/4057115132
"Young Ladies"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/104546207@N08/13998231356
crossdresser
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lacrasque/8336525649
306
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91894461@N07/14221195195
016
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78115879@N07/14227279715
Trisha Leigh st.John
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29824863@N06/3837131671
Pageant Sissy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22704178@N07/9341142043
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Thank you Andy, I so much appreciate the work you do in finding these little trinkets. Trouble is, one thing leads to another and you end up visiting more sites than just Flickr.
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LOL. Yeah, just about any time I see something interesting, I'm checking the rest of the page or site for more. At one point you have a dozen windows open & growing. It quickly gets to be a confusing mess & slows down as your browser suddenly starts drawing 0.5-1.3 gb of RAM trying to deal with it all.