New Year's Day

Happy New Year!

Below are some photos of our walk home New Year's Eve.  We had dinner at Sfoglia, Lexington and 92nd Street and then walked back to the hotel, 30 blocks.

Below is the Ralph Lauren store on Madison Avenue and the winter windows.

On New Year's Day we went to MoMA to see a couple of installations we had read about.  And then we went to a terribly depressing French film.  Dinner was good at a new restaurant for us, Il Mulino Uptown.

Below is the facade of Rizzoli Bookstore, a frequent stop for us after church in the mid-80's.

Another photo of the residential tower going up on W 57th Street.

Munch's The Scream on loan at MoMA and The Storm

We stood in line for about 20 minutes to see The Clock, a 24 film of movie clips all concerning time and actually showing the time on clocks and watches.  We loved it and would have stayed for more of it but we were keeping abreast of the time on The Clock so we would know when to leave to see the movie we had purchased tickets for!  Below is one website's description of The Clock and this is a link to a short clip from the piece.

The Clock is a spectacular and hypnotic 24-hour work of video art by renowned artist Christian Marclay. Marclay has brought together thousands of clips from the entire history of cinema, from silent films to the present, each featuring an exact time on a clock, on a watch, or in dialogue. The resulting collage tells the accurate time at any given moment, making it both a work of art and literally a working timepiece: a cinematic memento mori.

Marclay also composed the soundscape, driven by a racing and swelling symphony of ringing, ticking, footsteps, laughter, tears, and music.