The tree people were back yesterday to grind the stump of the big ash tree. They use a machine that is like a circular saw the size of a washing machine that moves on tank treads. It rumbles back and forth across the stump turning the wood into a mountain of chips. I helped spread the chips on the raw ground—an attempt to avoid the mud when things thaw out. Parts of the yard were denuded by the bobcat that was used to remove the tree sections. Some of the sprinkler system was damaged in the tree takedown and will need repair in the spring.
Saturday we were back in NYC for the Picasso Sculpture exhibit at MoMA. There are 141 pieces from several different periods of his life ranging from 1902 to 1964. He used a variety of materials—bronze, ceramic, wood, sheet metal, plaster, wire, cardboard and salvaged and found objects. There are 11 rooms, more or less in temporal order. The objects vary from fist sized to huge. They mostly represent plants, animals and people, especially women. They’re brilliant, iconic, imaginative, surprising, inventive and misogynistic.
After the sculptures, we visited some old friends hanging around the museum. Then it was south on 5th to 12th St. to Gotham B & G for a great dinner, and we parked on the street twice.
Painted metal and old casters, 'Little Horse'.
Plaster, 'Bust of a Woman'.
Bronze 'Cat'.
Ceramic 'Owl'.
'Baboon with Young', bronze, the head is a toy car.
'She-Goat', bronze.
'Little Girl Jumping Rope', bronze.
Sheet metal, 'Woman with Child'.
Iconic 'Bull's Head' from bicycle parts, bronze.
Sculpture garden and skyline.
Five levels of MoMA.
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