sarah in nyc

One of my sisters can't travel all that easily so she asked me to visit  the Bill Cunningham Exhibit  in her stead. Today was a good day to go. I had suspected that the exhibit was in the tiny exhibition space on the second floor, and it was.  Most of the exhibit was devoted to the excellent documentary about Bill Cunningham which I had already seen. Cunningham had spent much of his early life in fashion as a milliner. He adored feathers and many of his hats and hair ornaments are full of feathers. If you aren't in New York, watch the Bill Cunningham documentary, the exhibit isn't worth a special visit to the city or to the museum. But right down the hall, there was a fabulous exhibit on the use of feathers in fashion. It seemed almost like a sly dig at Cunningham's use of feathers. The use of feathers in fashion drove some bird species to extinction. Aigrettes, in particular, are now extinct due to their being so highly desired in hat making...

Both my husband and I thought we would work yesterday, but when my husband suggested that we play hooky from our responsibilities and go on a small outing. We decided to go to the New York Historical Society. Amazon.com Widgets First we waited for the bus which gave us the time to pay attention to the familiar landscape. I have been fond of this 1920's Tudor revival brick apartment house since I moved to the neighborhood. I am a sucker for fancy brickwork. My husband pointed out a detail of the building that neither of us had noticed before. That great scalloped terracotta tile at the roof line is just amazing. The bus took a while to arrive so we had a long time to admire that tile. I had lots of time to admire trees in Central Park. On the way to the exhibit we had planned to see we were gobsmacked by an exhibit of  Larry Silver Photographs . You can see a few of the images if you click on the link. The images capture the ordinary in New York City life in ...