Family reunion

Recently Jonathan came up with this: "I have some good and some bad news. The good news, there are no bad news. And the bad news, there are no good news." But we do have some good news!

Daniel is visiting us for a short spring break vacation. He arrived on Friday evening, leaving a long trip behind him. Monaco - Nice - Rom (staying there overnight) - Philadelphia - Newark. Wuuh! The original idea was to "show" him Rom. But Daniel was not amused at all. He told us, it was raining all the time in Rom. A lot of drunk soccer fans in the city (on this day it was a soccer play between Lazio Rom and Borussia Mönchengladbach), some fights between German and Italian fans, no WiFi etc. I hope, on his way back he will improve his first impression dramatically. Anyway, he arrived and already in the car on our way home we started to discuss and argue. Literature, art, business,- there are so many topics you can have different opinions... So nothing has been really changed...

On Saturday we drove to the City, dropped off Jonathan at Lee Strasberg

and went to Max Brenner to get a breakfast.

After that Jessi left us for her French lesson and we remained four. Despite the fact that the rain didn't want to stop, we decided to walk to Chelsea. After a while, wet and cold, we took a taxi and drove a little.

Chelsea is well known as a place for art and creativity with the numerous of art galleries. So we started to browse. One after another. A lot of art. Completely for free.
Every gallery has each own character. It's really great to see how do the artists see the world, what do they have think about.

The seats are also supposed to be an art, for about 8 thousand bucks

One thing more that I absolutely love about New York (America?) is that you can easily get in contact with other people. You start a conversation and you never know, what you'll take with you home. At Montserrat Art Gallery http://www.montserratgallery.com we wanted to see Anya Rubin's works, but at that moment they were changing the exhibition. We knocked at the door and Richard Gins, the director of the gallery, let us inside, showed and explained the pictures and we had a nice conversation with him for an half an hour. Such a pleasure! He said, he is a little disappointed of a mass public. A lot of people don't understand the art, but they are not shy about this. Instead of saying "ok, I don't understand, but I'm willing to learn",  they even show off with their ignorance. Also Richard was talking about how much marketing is in the art. He told us a story. One big exhibition was holding in NYC. And one artist, who didn't get a chance to introduce his art at this event, exposed some his works in front of the gallery. The second year he did the same action. In the third year Wall Street Journal published an article about him. On that day the artist sold 80 pictures. Luck? Recognition? PR? Difficult to say. Another Richard's statement was that he's sick of copying. Everyone copies everyone. He can rarely see an art he is excited about. Richard Gins himself is however a great artist, photographer, musician.  He showed us also some his works. Coming back home we purchased his book "Subway riders", a selection of drawings, produced on NYC subway. I like this topic subway. It reminds me also on my other friend in Stockholm. She makes photos of people in subway, Stockholm, Moscow, Warsaw...

Wait, how did I start? Daniel, Rom, raining... How I'm going to end up? Art, NYC, raining... "Raining lady" by Anya Rubin,  "Rain man" with Dustin Hoffman... Somehow... Somewhere...