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A Cool Eye For The Desert: Diebenkorn In New Mexico

[New York Peasant by Wilfrid: February 15, 2008]

After reviewing a closed exhibit last week, I am pleased to offer you an extensive show at the Grey Art Gallery which runs through April 5; and which deserves return visits.

Richard Diebenkorn's name has become almost synonymous with his Ocean Park paintings.

London - Bumping Around The States: Ten Years Ago

[Pigging by Wilfrid: February 15, 2008]

No sooner had I tucked a few hours sleep under my belt, following the dinner at An American Place described last week, than I was on the much-missed Concorde, headed east again.

Complete And Utter Chinatown #1: Cantoon Garden

[Pigging by Wilfrid: February 8, 2008]

So, what I'm doing now is eating in every single place which sells food in Chinatown and writing a review.  Except.

I am not setting myself any deadlines, so I don't know when I'll be done.

Recently Hanging: Pissarro. Now Hanging: Freilicher

[New York Peasant by Wilfrid: February 8, 2008]

In the past, I have been sufficiently irritated to write a letter in protest at Time Out's habit of reviewing gallery shows the week they close.  I remember an intelligently crafted response, which failed to convince me.

It's with apologies, therefore, that I direct your attention to "Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country" at the Jewish Museum.

Scroll down for the current Jane Freilicher show at Tibor de Nagy.

The London Thing and An American Place: Ten Years Ago

[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid: February 8, 2008]

Around this time of my life, the New York-London route became as familiar as the M8 bus route is today.  Although a trip on the M8 involves less hanging around and rarely disrupts my sleep patterns.

Adour: Project For A Restaurant In New York

[Pigging by Wilfrid: February 8, 2008]

Chef A.D. turned slowly, his gaze following the colonnade around the room.  The gallery surrounded the dining area on four sides.

It was like the last time.  But some how not the same.  Almost thoughtlessly, his eyes measured the angles of the room.

Mange Blanc: A White Bar In The Village

[Pigging by Wilfrid: February 1, 2008]

Shiny, shiny...shiny white leather.  You could slide right...onto the floor.

From the chairs at least which, to my haunches, are impossibly constructed, a fixed, angled cushion rising only halfway up the chair's back. They do look pretty, though.

Suddenly Seymour Burton

One moment, it was Le Tableau, a French-ish bistro with middle eastern touches, serving food I found fairly mediocre. Next thing you knew...

It was a construction site. And indeed, the whole look of the former conventional dining room, kitchen in the rear, has been erased.  Most important, of course...

Goin' To Kansas City (For 2 Nights): Ten Years Ago

[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid:  February 1, 2008]

So I wake up in Kansas City and take breakfast in a rooftop eatery at the Ritz-Carlton: sausage links, eggs over easy, toast and marmalade.  Then I find the talking statue of Winston Churchill across the street, and push buttons to hear his greatest hits.