Catherine and me went to Merlin's opening at the New York Studio School before heading to Bob's opening. Robert Mangold's (Bob's) opening was at Pace in Chelsea.]]> We happened to be sitting at the table next to Denise, Jim (James), Peggy and Bruce, Amanda and Judson came into the restaurant to see Amanda's parents. Catherine, Tom, Joyce and me went to the movies and then to Gigi's for dinner.]]> Barry Schwabsky gave a talk at Vassar. After which a group went to dinner at the Mill House Panda in Poughkeepsie, New York.]]> Catherine and I first went to a memorial service for Judy Busch at the New School for Social research in Manhattan. After the service Catherine and I met up with Alexis and Shirley at Sammy's Noodle House on 6th Avenue and 11th Street. Alexis came in from Minneapolis that morning. After we visited and ate some food at Sammy's, we went across the street to a patisserie and cafe and visited for another hour over coffee, tea and pastries.]]> They were at Vassar bringing Lillian around to colleges.]]> We ran into Don and Leslie at Robert Mangold's exhibition at Pace Gallery. Ron and Janice were with them. Ron and I thought we looked familiar to each other. It turned out he taught at Pratt Institute for about a year when Catherine and I were students there. We were still not sure if we had met. Leslie Wayne is having a show, which we had seen earlier in the afternoon. See next entry.]]> We spotted them going into Sikkema Jenkins & Co. We all talked for a while on the sidewalk and then in the Gallery. See previous entry.]]> Feature Gallery, on 25th Street, NYC, where we were all at an opening for Judy Linn's show. See following entry.]]> Outside Feature Gallery on 25th Street, NYC, where we were all at an opening for Judy Linn's show. See previous entry.]]> Dinner at Woo Chon Korean Retaurant on 36th Street, NYC, after Judy Linn's opening at Feature Gallery on 25th Street. See following entry.]]> Dinner at Woo Chon, NYC, after Judy Linn's opening at Feature Gallery on 25th Street. See previous entry.]]> After my opening at Kayafas Gallery we stayed at Michael and Gail's in Cambridge. Gail, very thoughfully, thought we might be hungry. So had some food waiting for us when we got to their house. They had left the opening before us.]]> At the opening of my exhibition of photographs, Cover-Up, at Galery Kayafas, Boston, MA. See next three entries.]]> At the opening of my exhibition of photographs, Cover-Up, at Galery Kayafas, Boston, MA. See previous entry and following two entries.]]> Right after the opening of my exhibition of photographs, Cover-Up, at Galery Kayafas, Boston, MA. See previous two entries and following entry.]]> After the opening of my exhibition of photographs, Cover Up, at Gallery Kayafas. Accross the internal street from the gallery. See previous three previous entries.]]> We went into Lennon Weinberg Gallery, 514 West 25th Street, NYC, to see the Mary Lucier Exhibition.]]> Tom wanted to show us the paintings that were going to Venice for the Bilennale.]]> Andrew Tallon was one of three candidates the Art Department brought to Vassar for a Medieval Art History position. We had lunch at The Haymaker Restaurant in Poughkeepsie, NY with Andrew. Post Script: Andrew Tallon was subsequently offered and accepted the position.]]> George Trakas was invited by Environmental Studies (at Vassar) to give a lecture. The Art Department was another sponsor. Par Wallace has been conducting a faculty seminar on creativity. The dinner was also a meeting of this group. Even though I had not been participating in the Seminar Pat invited Catherine and me to come to dinner and to this session of the seminar, so we did.]]> See following entry.]]> We ran into Wendy and some of her friends going around to galleries in Chelsea, NYC. See previous entry.]]> The Drawing center had a benefit event at which Sylvia and Bob (Robert Mangold) were honored.]]> First Catherine and me visited with Arthur and Billy, then to dinner at Elizabeth's in Pittsfield, MA. Billy and Arthur had arranged for their friends Reba and Bruce to meet us for dinner. See previous entry.]]> We went to Pittsfield to see Arthur and Billy's new house. See next entry.]]> I picked Elisabeth up at her house and then we came to our house to get Cathy. We met Ralph at Fosters Coach House Restaurant for dinner. After that we went next door to Upstate Films to see Ace in the Hole by Billie Wilder. There was a pre-screening talk by Scott Spencer.]]> We had dinner at Amici's Retaurant, near the train station in Poughkeepsie. John had to get a 7:30 train to get to the city to work on editing the Honey Drippers.]]> Joyce wanted to come and see the student sculpture and animation exhibition at Vassar College. She is going to be taking my place when I am on sabbatical in the fall. So thought it would be good to see what the students are doing and meet some of the students she will be working with next year. Tom and she both came to the opening as did Catherine. After the opening, the four of us went out to dinner at the Beechtree Restaurant across the street from Vassar.]]> I could not decide what to do for my birthday, if anything. So Cathy convinced me to go to Woodbury Commons and buy some clothes for myself ( in addition to my other presents). I called Bob and Sylvia to see if they wanted to go to dinner. After going shopping at Woodbury Commons in Central Valley, NY, we met them at Toro (which used to be the Cherry Blossom, where we had been going for years) for dinner.]]> We were doing the final critiques for the studio majors senior project. We were taking a short lunch break.]]> Cappy gave a dinner in honor of Barbara Page, who is retiring from Vassar College.]]> Jackie (a former students of Catherine's), received an Academy award at that days ceremony as well as a purchase award. Juan Gomez received a Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation award. See next entry.]]> Allan Garganus was inducted into the Academy at a ceremony that day. See previous entry.]]> Out in the yard at Tom and Joyce's house.]]> Judy arranged a dinner for Barbara for her birthday and her retirement from Vassar College. The dinner was shifted later because of a restaurant reservation issue. We went to Barbara's for drinks and snacks and couldn't go to dinner afterwards for various reasons.]]> At Sacha and Olivier, NYC]]> I went to the gallery to meet with Cecily and Roy about my upcoming exhibition. I brought about 40 of the 100 Most Popular Colors drawing series to see if they would be up for showing them. They were very enthusiastic and we finalized that the show exhibit would be this October.]]> John and Eve had a dinner for John's birthday.]]> Peter and Shawn had a picnic at their house in Hunns Lake, NY.]]>