I feel like I did not give visual art justice in my previous post. I mixed in two exhibitions with all the theater I had seen. They should have their own separate posts. I am still trying to tease out the theater from the art from the comedy from the dance. Sometimes the weeks have blurred together and my unpacking all of it seemingly will cross over into 2023. I am learning the more focus I give to my writing the better it resonates with the audience. It has been a year of learning and most of all, seeing. I am not a big gallery hawk (yet), but I do keep up with New York museum shows. You can find me wandering the museum galleries on the weekend or on a late Member night. Over the last seven months, I have seen so much, heard so much in New York. I have made friends with a volunteer at the Whitney for 20 years who is obsessed with Korean dramas and who saw Frank Sinatra live when she was 17 years old. I saw the artist Judy Chicago on the street. And I overheard countless art debates in the gallery (because New Yorkers talk about art). I have been able to see a lot of these exhibits with dear friends, share ideas and question artistic intent and process. And I will use the same tactic here as I did with the theater post, listen in for more insights and my own anecdotes of the exhibits. Two Best in Shows Outside of New York:Fragile Earth: The Natural Impulse in Contemporary Art at the Brandywine Museum of Art Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale: The Bronzes at The Pulitzer Favorite new Meret Oppenheim’s My ExhibitionMoMA

Best Friend Wolfgang Tillman’s To Look without fearMoMA

Most relevant Just Above Midtown: Changing SpacesMoMA

Surprising Dave LaChapelle Make believe Fotografiska*Correction to my Audio: Dave LaChapelle is white.

Most mystical Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya ArtThe Met 

Favorite Retrospective Alex Katz’s GatheringGuggenheim

Favorite Sculpture

Nick Cave’s Forothermore Guggenheim 

Most New york [tie]Edward Hopper’s New YorkWhitney Museum of American Art New York: 1962-1964Jewish Museum 

Biggest Fail COVID in ABQ ; Lightning Field Dia

Deep dive in art history Marsden Hartley American Modern

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