ARCHEOLOGISTS-ARTISTS-ETHNOGRAPHERS

 National Arts Club on Gramercy Park

June 20th

"Archeology Addicts"

President, Michele Kidwell and her husband

Entertaining and informative slide Lecture by Yekaterina Barbash, Assistant Curator of the Arts of Ancient Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum, discusses the unique roles of cats and lions in Egyptian everyday life, kingship, mythology as well as the extraordinary exhibition Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt, which she organized.  

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Annual Russian Heritage Month

Several Galleries were exhibiting works of Russian Artists and

a photo series of Shamans from the Russian Museum of Ethnography

 Drawings by Dashi Namdakov

"Horseman with Bow"

 (Selfie)

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Russian-American Women Artists

Many More

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A WEEK IN the SCHOOL OF LIFE

"I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus."
-Firesign Theater-
see footnote
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Oh, if only that timeless moment

If only suspension in pure bliss,

no time but an endless present.

Then, what then? Then, just this...

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Monday Morning

Tuesday Art Opening
Gramercy Neighborhood Association Invitational
 National Arts Club

(30 second video just to hear the noise)

http://youtu.be/c0L_To6rbUc

Eighty Four Artists
On Exhibition and For Sale 

(seven selects)

Mayo Alyce

"Barred Owl"

Photograph-$425

Bo Kass

"Pot & Three Pears"

"C" Print-$350

Michael Mendel

"Toward an Unknown Fate"

Watercolor-$3000

Janet Bennett

"Ultramarine Shark"

Oil-$5,200

Annette Wallach Cohen

"Chelsea Girls"

Archival digital print-$650

Lorelei Arts

"Amazon Queen of the Sea"

Ink and Watercolor-$1,250

Kaelin Fuld

"Lips"

Acrylic-$400

 Modern Art Collection
(three selects)

Will Barnet
"Polly, Minou and Eon"
1979

Paul Manes
'Untitled'
1987 and 1988

Keith Haring
Untitled Subway Series fragment
1984

Arts Club's Eternal Presences  
Teddy

Edgar

Spontaneous Dialogue
with two young Masons on a cigarette break outside
 "I'm seventy two and I can lean",
I said, while leaning on the bannister.

'I'm thirty two and I can stand", replied plaid-clad.

"I'm 22 and I can dance" the other added.

Wednesday
An Apple Brown Betty
ready for the oven

Thursday
-Weekly Horoscope by R. Bresney-

"It's time to smash gaping holes through obstacles.
Don't scrimp or apologize. Clear the way for the future."

Friday

 Mondays child is fair of face,
Tuesdays child is full of grace,
Wednesdays child is full of woe,
Thursdays child has far to go,
Fridays child is loving and giving,
 Saturdays child works hard for a living,

Saturday

And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

Foot Note
I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus is the fourth comedy recording made by The Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records. It was released in 1971 and is the last of a tetrology, comprising their first four albums.

http://youtu.be/lmWFrMq3qNY

 

SEVERAL BITS and MANY PIECES

Friday 10/3

The National Arts Club
Photographs by Jonathan Jakubowicz 
 
Two Exhibits
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"The Soft Sculpture of Charles James"

"Charles James is not only the greatest American couturier,
but the world's best and only dressmaker"

with Eric T. Norris

He treated us to a tasty lunch at
Ponty Bistro

Saturday 10/4
Begonia in the morning at
New York Zen Center for Compassionate Care

Altar

Sunday 10/5
Morning Zen again

 Circle Altered by Sunlight

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Midday
Transition at Home

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Afternoon
Metric Poetry Reading

Ottos Tiki Bar on 14th Street

Vintage

Inside in the dark back room Meredith Bergman read beautifully
See previous post Part two
Joshua Mehigan was utterly mesmerizing
 
One of the poems he read was 'Smokestack'
and below he also reads 'Rabbit Foot'
WATCH
http://vimeo.com/41056170
Many others read, but I didn't write all the names so won't put any names I know for fear of favoring.  All were fine and the very full house enthusiastic.
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Exit All
Our fortunes were available two doors away

Monday 10/6
Evening
The Moving Pen
my writing group meets near here

and around the corner from here

two hours later I walked home

The moon was a tipped egg

Tuesday 10/7
Morning

Yoga for Mental Wellness

Leslie Kaminoff and Amy Matthews

The Breathing Project

Wednesday 10/8

I was rudely awakened from a troubling dream by a furry feeling at my neck at 3AM--spent an hour stripping the bed and looking for openings (of which there are many)...((((sigh)))) 'Tis the season for this and now I must DO something about it.
The day dissolved into emails, face book, research and reading.
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Evening
I watched this documentary

"Exit Through the Gift Shop"
Banksy

(eighty minutes)

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Thursday 10/9
Resting, Reading , Writing, Being

"Thinkers in ancient India understood the source and direction of the creative impulse as accessible deep within their being in moments of intuitive insight. Various verses in the Rgveda reflect the idea that certain people possess within a transformative genius or dhi" 
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-from The Artist as Yogi-The Yogi as Artist by William K. Mahony
Parabola-Volume xiii-Number 1-1988-The Creative Impulse-
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Friday 10/10
I'm going to the movies

"The Autobiography of a Yogi"
by Paramahansa Yogananda

Available through the Gutenberg organization
free download in various formats
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7452
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I am entertaining the notion that Wednesdays mouse was just a vivid part of the dream since there has been no sign of it since.  It does happen that if a dream element wakes one violently the portal remains open and the vision seems real.  This is usually an important dream, and mine was that.
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