Looking back at 2018:
So my dog is still cute, and still hanging in there. She's pretty geriatric at this point...But she is doing ok. Had to install a ramp for her to get down the porch stairs to the yard, and it is incredibly amusing to watch the technique that she developed to crawl/slide down it.
I'm not EVEN getting into the fiasco that is all things DT. There just isn't any point. So don't ask.
Here's what I am going to do...I'm going to cover the highlights of this year, because that's what I feel like reflecting on today, this 1st day of January 2019.
So, I saw a lot of great art this year...the Hannah af Klimt exhibit at the Guggenheim, the Hockney exhibit and the Delacroix show at the Met, the Marc & Macke exhibit at the Neue Gallery. And there was the Anselm Kiefer show at the Met Breuer.
At the MFA I saw the Klimt & Schiele exhibit, and the super-fun Takashi Murakami show. Went to a few small galleries, too, and saw some great and not-so-great works...which all adds to the balance.
Books...I read a lot of good ones this year (click on the book to go to the link)
The desert and the sea : 977 days captive on the Somali pirate coast / Michael Scott Moore
There were many others...those are just the highlights.
I'm starting 2019 with the newest Tana French: The Witch Elm
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RIP Anthony
Sad day when we lost him.
I checked out this book and made both the tomato soup and the macaroni and cheese (which is phenomenal).
Clio and I had been in the habit of watching Parts Unknown together a few evenings a week,
and now it is such a bittersweet thing to do.
March for Our Lives in March at the State House...with my dear friend Arthur. Robert helped me make the posters.
So many kids getting killed. Too many guns. Not enough gun control.
It's a terrible tragedy for our times.
April in NYC...the David Bowie exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. What a memorable show.
I saw a few remarkable movies...these 3 were among the best.
I saw Nick Cave twice this year!!! Boston, at the Schubert Theater, doing a Q&A and acoustic set, which was spectacular. And then In October, at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, for a riveting performance. He never disappoints.
I am lucky I have such wonderful friends, and so glad I was able to see the lovely folks who don't live so close to me.
I will end with this...since it was a pretty pivotal moment this year. Clara graduated, and headed to Northeastern University in Boston. A stellar student and an amazing person...on to great things.
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