From time to time, we meet up with a group of friends for an early Easter Sunday dinner. Tom Nozkowski and Joyce Robins were supposed to come, but Tom wasn't up to it.]]> 2003. The Cotton Club From Under the Viaduct at Riverside Drive and St. Clair Place, 2003, 34" x 66 1/4", oil on canvas]]> When the guy from Cranesville finally got here and started pouring the concrete, everything went wrong. First, pebbles started coming out, and then overly thick concrete started coming down the chute, which soon got totally stuck at the top of the chute. The Cranesville guy kept hosing water up and into the chute while Charlie used a hoe to try and dig out the concrete. This eventually worked, and the whole time the Cranesville guy was hosing the concrete so what we got was a mix of too dry and too wet. I wasn't impressed with the guy's troubleshooting ability. The next day I checked the concrete and it did have small cracks in it. I am hopeful that when the tree is cable to the loop that it will hold. I think it probably will. Marc Briscoe welded an apparatus with a loop on top to be put in the concrete, which went into the hole that Darren and Jean Jean Dug. To that hook would be attached cable, the other end of which would be put around the trunk of the tree that's crushing my barn studio. The Cranesville kept saying they gave him a crappy truck, and that it wasn't the truck he was used to, and it was making him look like a rookie.]]> My assistants in New Hackensack building at Vassar College. We were at the start of practice/rehearsal for the Hole in the Wall installation to be installed at the Lehman Loeb Art center starting in December.]]> We were coming along well with our work on the installation for The Hole in the Wall at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar and probably going to finish by the upcoming weekend (which we did). So I took all of us out for lunch at the Artists' Palette Restaurant in Poughkeepsie.]]> These were my assistants + Golan Moskowitz, who had to leave early that day. We were working on Hole in the Wall at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.]]> Working on the second large drawing. See the previous entry.]]> Working on the second large drawing. See the following entry.]]> We Left to Right - Tino, Martine, Edwardo]]> We were taking a walk in Tivoli and I saw Susan and her family eating at Luna 6 (or 9).]]> We had lunch at the restaurant in the museum before dealing with business. Gunilla had to leave following lunch. So Catherine, John, and I went upstairs to the auditorium where I was to do my lecture. We did a technical check with a guy from the museum. We also installed five of my drawings for a small exhibition at the museum. We had to get back to the gallery in time to meet a reporter, who would be interviewing me for an article on the exhibition.]]> We all went to the Eveready Diner in Hyde Park for dinner. Afterward, we went next door to the Roosevelt Movie Theater to see No Country for Old Men.]]> They visited me at Vassar College. They are pictured in New Hackensack at Vassar College where I and my crew are working on test drawings for an installation I will be doing at the Vassar College Museum.]]> At the opening for the student sculpture show at Vassar.]]> At Michael Mazur's opening at the Mary Ryan Gallery on 57th Street.]]> I ran into this student (the woman on the right) with her family. She graduated this year. I am pretty sure she was an Art History major. She wrote down her name for me a number of times. But I have lost the pieces of paper. It seems ironic that she was going to help me list some of the names missing in the photographs from the opening of Hole in the Wall at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Anyway, at some point, I may get the names. But first, I must get her name.]]> We all went to dinner at the French Corner, Stone Ridge, NY.]]> We met at The French Laundry for dinner.]]> We visited them at their house.]]> They were doing college visits for Ariana. They made an appointment to see me at my office at Vassar College. I talked with them, looked at Ariana's portfolio and showed them around New Hackensack.]]> Easter Dinner - The Huguenot Restaurant, New Paltz, New York.]]> We had a birthday dinner for Catherine at the Huguenot Restaurant in New Paltz, NY. See following entry.]]> Outside of the Huguenot Restaurant in New Platz, NY. We had a birthday dinner for Catherine (Murphy) there. See previous entry.]]> After dinner at our house, we went to get ice cream.]]> Susan Kuretsky, a friend and colleague in the Art Department, is retiring this year. The Intersection of Art History Classroom and the Museum is a day-long celebration of Susan and her time at Vassar College. The first part of the event started at 2:30 and began with a talk that Susan gave. She then introduced the panel members as they each gave a presentation. The 4:30 event consisted of talks by: James Mundy, '74 (the year James graduated from Vassar), The Anne Hendricks Bass, Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Molly Nesbit '74, Professor of Art at Vassar, Mia M. Mochizuki '93, Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History, NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Institute of Fine Arts. Then we all went to the Lehman Loeb Art Center for the opening of the exhibition, Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection, an exhibition celebrating the career of Susan Donahue Kuretsky '63, Professor of Art on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair, Vassar College. Then, off to the Alumnae House for dinner. The last two meals I had at the Alumnae House that Main Course catered were pretty good. At this meal, the chicken was dry and pretty much inedible. The photograph is of the table at which I was seated. See the previous two entries and the following entry.]]> Susan Kuretsky, a friend and colleague in the Art Department, is retiring this year. The Intersection of Art History Classroom and the Museum is a day-long celebration of Susan and her time at Vassar College. The first part of the event started at 2:30 and began with a talk that Susan gave. She then introduced the panel members as they each gave a presentation. Before this event started, I chatted with Karen Robinson. She retired from the Art Department a few years ago, having taught American Art. Emily Warner had been teaching American Art for the last two years. Tom Hill is the director of the Art Library, and Michelle Donnelly is a former student of Susan's and a Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum. See the next three entries.]]> Susan Kuretsky, a friend and colleague in the Art Department, is retiring this year. The Intersection of Art History Classroom and the Museum is a day-long celebration of Susan and her time at Vassar College. The first part of the event started at 2:30 and began with a talk that Susan gave. She then introduced the panel members as they each gave a presentation. Then panel members answered various questions from the audience. In the order of the talks they gave, the panelists were: Katherine lee Reid '63 (year graduated from Vassar), Director emerita, Cleveland Museum of Art, Marni Kessler '87, Associate Professor, Nineteenth-Century European Art, University of Kansas, John Stuart Gordon '99. Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, Joanna Sheers Seldenstein '02, Fello. Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the previous entry and the following two entries.]]> Susan Kuretsky, a friend and colleague in the Art Department, is retiring this year. The Intersection of Art History Classroom and the Museum is a day-long celebration of Susan and her time at Vassar College. The first part of the event started at 2:30 and began with a talk that Susan gave. She then introduced the panel members as they each gave a presentation. The 4:30 event consisted of talks by: James Mundy, '74 (the year James graduated from Vassar), The Anne Hendricks Bass, Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Molly Nesbit '74, Professor of Art at Vassar, Mia M. Mochizuki '93, Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History, NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Institute of Fine Arts. Then we all went to the Lehman Loeb Art Center for the opening of the exhibition, Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection, an exhibition celebrating the career of Susan Donahue Kuretsky '63, Professor of Art on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair, Vassar College. Then, off to the Alumnae House for dinner. The last two meals I had at the Alumnae House that Main Course catered were pretty good. At this meal, the chicken was dry and pretty much inedible. I visited Cathy (Murphy), at her table. So I photographed this table as well. Everyone is holding up the book that was published in celebration of Susan Kuretsky, consisting of art historical essays by some of Susan's former students. See the previous three entries.]]> Justin and Allison were visiting Vassar and we had planned to meet up. Justin was surprised to see his hand sculpture was still outside Doubleday Studios. Justin is now a practicing architect at HOK Architects in New York City. Allison and Justin have been a couple since they were students at Vassar College (see photo from Oct 13, 2003).]]> TheJohnBrownHouse]]> TheJohnBrownHouseDetail]]> This was the last Studio Majors Critique of the year, Vassar College, New Hackensack Building. See the following three entries.]]> This was the last Studio Majors Critique of the year, Vassar College, New Hackensack Building. See the previous entry and the following two entries.]]> This was the last Studio Majors Critique of the year, Vassar College, New Hackensack Building. See the previous entry two entries and the following entry.]]> This was the last Studio Majors Critique of the year, Vassar College, New Hackensack Building. See the previous three entries.]]> This photograph was taken at an opening of student work at the Palmer Gallery at Vassar.]]> At an opening of Robert Taplin's.]]> 1994-12-20 (roll date, image #22), L - R, Patti Liefer, Tim Liefer, Maggie (in front, deceased)]]> Photographed in the art department at Vassar College.]]> I was on my way to Millbrook to get take-out food for dinner tonight with Alexis and Shirley (see visitors:Alexis and Shirley, May 30, 2009). I stopped at a yard say and Brian came up to me when they arrived at the sale. They were going around to yard sales to look for records for Brian's collection.]]>