sarah in nyc

After months of being essentially house bound, I am finally healthy enough to have a few tame adventures in the city. (For those of you who have expressed your concerns about my health... In September I got a cold that decided to become a long term resident in my body. My doctor had thought that it might be a particular auto immune deficiency. It isn't-- which is both good and bad. Being able to slap a name on something, even if there is no cure, is comforting. I have no diagnosis. I assume that I will continue to just get sicker than most people when I get sick. This isn't going to kill me--- I will just continue living my life as I have since I was five and first got hit with this. People live with much worse.) Sunday, a friend and I went to the Museum of Art and Design for the last day of  Vera Paints a Scarf . Textiles by Vera Neumann were just a ubiquitous part of of the visual landscape of Mid-Century America. You might eat at a table covered by a table-cloth cove...

The work part of my day was being interviewed about the possibility of a teaching gig.  Things are looking good and it should be a nice addition to my summer. Amazon.com Widgets I had planned to visit the Musuem of Art and Design with my youngest after the interview.  He met me at the museum. I was dying to see  the Judith Leiber exhibit.  The last big exhibit of her work was at FIT just over 20 years ago years ago. When THAT exhibit was up I took my older son who was then really little to fill up the time between the end of his day at day care at the time we had to pick my daughter up at her school bus. My son was so enchanted by the exhibit that he asked to go back several times, and we did. The current exhibit was fine but had none of the magic that the brilliant Valerie Steele adds to every exhibit at FIT. We saw cool pocketbooks, but no magic. We stopped by  this exhibit.  I might not be clever enough to understand the premise of the exhi...