Lately

 I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see ‘Ancient Sculpture in Color’ and ‘In America, a Lexicon in Fashion.’

They, the restorers of classic sculptures, have discovered a way of exposing paint on the sculptures of antiquity and have used that knowledge to paint some of the sculptures which are now on view at the Met:

And fashion:

I spent a week at Angela’s in Brewster and one day we took a ride across Putnam County to Cold Spring where we visited Magazzino, Italian Art Museum in which we got to see Piero Gilardi, who looks like someone I used to know.  I’ve seen at MoMA.  

He creates carpets: Tappeto-Natura 

And other Artists of the Modern Movement in Italy called Arte Povera.

Michelangelo Pistoleto:

‘Alamo ed Eva’, Silkscreen  print on polished stainless steel and the cloths he used to polish the stainless steel become the Italian flag … Arte Povera.

And more flags outside with clouds that reminded me of calligraphy:

Other artists: Janis Kounellis, Senza titolo

Giovanni Anselmo, Il panorama fin verso oltremare

Mario Metz, ‘Igloo con vortice’ and ‘Turbina’:

And the Broadway show Moulin Rouge which won the Tony Award for best musical and has no original music.  A spectacular spectacle very much in the style of the movie by Baz Luhrmann who had nothing to do with the show except to inspire it,

Tired, yes but still manageing to  get out and move.