Paintings, history and Village!

The pics are of the tram that I take every day for work and the bridge over which the tram flies.

I went to the Jewish museum with Rochelle, the museum has a free Saturday entry and yesterday was the last day of special collection of paintings and sculptures called Abstraction/Action critiqued by Grossenberg and Greenberg. It was fun predicting what the artwork was about and then read the description to find out if you were right! I got a decent diet of pushing my imagination to limits :)

I loved the Funeral Heart and another simple one but centrally symmetric and twice concentric one which was named something like reasoning or logic. Oil paintings, acrylic, metals, ... plays with hue, saturation and intensity ... myriad number of ways of painting and sculpting...

The questioning attitude that I found more common in Israelis when I visited there was subtly present in the correspondences related to paintings. To quote randomly, the question is not whether a painting is Jewish or not, the actual Jewish question would be "what is a Jewish painting?" :) And that is why I liked the punk girl who had her back tattooed in my earlier blog with :
Definition/Everything Creates/Destroys Everything/Definition

I learned that I have free entry always if I show Bloomberg business card ... sweet :) .... got to put it up for print on Monday. Dead Sea Scrolls is coming up next in the museum from today. In the permanenet collection, Ancient hebrew history was just wars and fights with intermissions of peace. Teams taking turns as enslaving each other. team A being enslaved by team B and later on team B being enslaved by team A! I liked the Jewish festivals better ... except the scary circucision one! But nothing like Holi anywhere dude ... it stands out! Somehow Indians and Hindus in my totally biased opinion have the best and the most festivals in the world!!

Checked on Dances of India to be held in Carnegie Hall .. was 70 bucks for classical Indian dances!! Decided to skip it :) We went to Astor Place in Village instead. Met with Judy, a friends of Rochelle, she has her mother and granddaughter both in her family, I will leave it for you to guess her age :) At dinner we talked about BigB, his blog, Bollywood, the concert, photographs, Delhi bombings, ethnic probelms, NYC over development, wall street meltdown, etc most things not very positive. I don's undesrtand reasons behind most problems nevertheless I would refuse to accept they are unsolvable if you work towards them. Went to 6th street in Village, I think called Little India or sth like that ... I didn't like the name of a restaurant as 'Gandhi'. Amitji saw a restaurant named 'Gandhiji' in Paris as well .. and I would agree with his take on this ... please ... please leave at least something from commercialization! It's just too respected a name for me to see on a restaurant board and people making money from it!

This pic is of fellow Punk Rockers in Village.

Rochelle decided to stalk on John and Bips, I joined in .. waited for couple or more hours ... no luck .. but no probs ... we passed time cracking up jokes mostly on homogenously yet scantily dressed young girls lined up outside a club in Manhattan. Never understood this club thing anyways ...

... got to plan out vacation, look for apartment for Amritanshu, catch up on slashdot, tech and financial stuff .. who is getting bankrupt next :) and do laundry and cleaning! Glad done with grocery!! Prepare for tomorrow work.