Two New York Interiors
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
When going as a
tourist to a big city like New York, no matter how long you stay, you will find
that there is never enough time. Rosemary and I managed to visit the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (for a whole day), the Frick and MOMA. We would have
liked to go to the Guggenheim but there were no hours left in our schedule.
I particularly
wanted to visit the Whitney to see my favourite Edward Hopper, New York
Interior. We never did make it, but fortune granted me an unexpected surprise.
While in
New York we went everywhere taking advantage of the subway (known as the MTA) even though it is
much more complex than my familiar Buenos Aires subte. The New York subway
could emulate some of the features of the subte. The most important would be to to use
all those vacant walls (and they are pretty well vacant) for ads.
One evening
we went to have dinner with Lenore Riegel and writer Jerome Charyn in Greenwich
Village. As we were climbing up the stairways there was the New York Interior.
After a
lovely dinner at the Café Cluny we were invited by Charyn and Riegel to meet Ketzel
at their apartment.
As you
would imagine a writer’s apartment, particularly one whose output exceeds 60
novels, shorts stories, etc (including one on ping-pong) is full of books.
Ketzel was charming and easy to photograph. Not so Charyn who closed his eyes
for many of my exposures.
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| Left - New York Interior - Edward Hopper - Right Bronwen - Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
For me
Hopper’s painting has always been called New York Apartment in my mind even though I know better.
And so the high moment of our trip to New York City were two New York Interiors.
