Over the weekend we went to a corner of Jersey City called Newport with our friend Alan. Newport is between the entrance to the Holland Tunnel and the Hudson River. There are high-rise apartments and offices, marinas, views of NYC across the river. Everything we saw looked clean, new and upscale. The restaurant where we ate, Battellos, was adequate, but we were PO’d that they didn’t honor the rez we had made to sit at a table with the view.
Judy and I went to MoMA yesterday, braving the rainstorm, to see Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. We bought tickets a few weeks ago when we thought we had an evening event that got canceled. Matisse started using paper cutouts to make collage art late in life. Assistants would pin the cutouts on the wall and frequently re-arrange them at his direction. They started small, but got larger and larger as he developed the medium. The exhibit has about 100 pieces. More info is available on the website.
It was packed. To enter the exhibit there was a maze like the ones at airport security.
MoMA lets one take pix in the museum but not at this exhibit, but I took a couple in the shop where the repro mementoes were for sale. We were early for the show and after the show, we were then early for our dinner rez, so we hit most of the rest of the museum. There is so much iconic art that it’s stunning.
We had dinner at Michael’s, conveniently located a couple blocks north of the museum. It was excellent. We left the city on the tail end of rush and rain, but had no road issues.
NYC from Jersey City-Newport.
Cut-Out Show poster.
Souvenirs of the show in the shop.
Below are a few images from MoMA, perhaps you'll recognize one or two. If you haven't seen these in a while, a trip to MoMA is in order.
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