Easter Dinner - The Huguenot Restaurant, New Paltz, New York.]]> Dinner at Serevan Restaurant, Millerton, NY. We went out to farewell dinner. John and Maggie sold their house near here. They bought a summer house in CT and will travel during the winter.]]> Dinner at Back Forty following Richard Wentworth Exhibition at the Peter Freeman Gallery.]]> The Tribecca Grill. Cathy (Catherine Murphy) won this years Robert De Niro Sr. Award for Excellence in Painting. In conjunction with the award we were invited to a number of events, including this one. The lunch was for the artists who gave work for awards for the film makers as well as for the judges.]]> Tom and Joyce had us all to dinner. Tom made a jerusalem artichoke and fennel soup, a chicken and rice dish and I brought and made an apple crisp, a gluten free dish because Robin is sensitive to gluten.]]> Group critique.]]> Robert De Niro Sr. Painting Prize, Greenwich, Hotel, NYC Catherine Murphy won the 2014 Robert De Niro Sr. award for excellence in painting. This was the event for the presentation of the award. See the previous entry.]]> Robert De Niro Sr. Painting Prize, Greenwich, Hotel, NYC Catherine Murphy won the 2014 Robert De Niro Sr. award for excellence in painting. This was the event for the presentation of the award. See the next entry.]]> William Louis Dreyfus,Phone message]]> Carole and Helen were in Germantown (from Providence) for the Christmas Holiday. We met for dinner at Mercato - Osteria & Enoteca in Red Hook, NY]]> Panel discussion at the New York Studio School in conjunction with the exhibition, "Unreasonable Size Paintings," curated by Phone Bui. See the previous two entries.]]> Panel discussion at the New York Studio School in conjunction with the exhibition, "Unreasonable Size Paintings", curated by Phone Bui. See the previous entry and the following entry.]]> Panel discussion at the New York Studio School in conjunction with the exhibition, "Unreasonable Size Paintings", curated by Phong Bui. See the next two entries.]]> I was shopping at Adams Fairacre Farms and they were as well.]]> Tom and Joyce invited us over for Thanksgiving. We usually go to Catherin's sister's house (Betty and Jack's) but Catherine wasn't up to the trip. This was her first night out since her knee replacement in October. We had beef tenderloin, a carrot dish, a brussel sprout dish, baked shallots. First, we had Asparagus soup. Before that appetizers. Tom opened a bottle of Dom Perignon. With dinner, we had an Argentinean Malbec, which we brought. We also brought dessert which Cathy and I made- Mutabbaq from the Jerusalem cookbook (Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi). Lots of lovely conversation about art, film, television, and critics. We also looked at some photographs taken at Casimir and Hannah's wedding that Cas had downloaded to a flash drive. See the previous entry.]]> Tom and Joyce invited us over for Thanksgiving. We usually go to Catherin's sister's house (Betty and Jack's) but Catherine wasn't up to the trip. This was her first night out since her knee replacement in October. We had beef tenderloin, a carrot dish, a brussel sprout dish, baked shallots. First, we had Asparagus soup. Before that appetizers. Tom opened a bottle of Dom Perignon. With dinner, we had an Argentinean Malbec, which we brought. We also brought dessert which Cathy and I made- Mutabbaq from the Jerusalem cookbook (Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi). Lots of lovely conversation about art, film, television, and critics. We also looked at some photographs taken at Casimir and Hannah's wedding that Cas had downloaded to a flash drive. See the following entry.]]> Staff at the American Academy of Arts and Letters eating lunch. Catherine (Murphy) is on the board of the Academy and had to go in for a meeting. I went with her and waited in Virginia's office spending my time doing work on my laptop. The board members were served lunch and I was given lunch as well. This was the day before Catherine's knee replacement surgery so we had decided to stay overnight in Manhattan. We met up with William Finn for dinner later on at the Red Cat.]]> A meeting at Katy Holman's office about the design of Catherine's book.]]> Opening of the Richard Tuttle and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge show and Reading at ‘T’ Space, Rhinebeck, NY. See the previous three entries.]]> Opening of the Richard Tuttle show at ‘T’ Space, Rhinebeck, NY. See the previous two entries and the following entry.]]> Opening of the Richard Tuttle and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge show and reading at ‘T’ Space, Rhinebeck, NY. See the previous entry and the following two entries.]]> Opening of the Richard Tuttle and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge show and reading at ‘T’ Space, Rhinebeck, NY. See the following four entries.]]> Carole and Helen are back from Providence for the summer. We met for dinner at Cinnamon Indian Restaurant in Rhinebeck, NY. Dinner was quite good.]]> We saw Susan Frecon, her daughter and Grandson (Susan Frecon and family) at the Rhinebeck Farmers Market. We chatted for a bit.]]> We met at Katy Homan's loft to discuss the book on Catherine's work that is being published by Rizzoli and Peter Freeman Gallery. In the morning we met (which took three hours but went very well. Then we were off to the Peter Freeman Gallery. Two blocks from the gallery someone pulled out of a spot (on Broadway) and smashed the side of our car. Phong Bui sent a photographer from the Brooklyn Rail to meet us at the gallery. He photographed Catherine and me for drawings of us that Phong needed to do. I had left 15 minted to get to a physical therapy appointment. Because of a few things I screwed up I wound up tense and walking 45 minutes in 95-degree heat. Luckily it did not do me in.]]> We met for dinner at Gusto in Poughkeepsie. We have eaten here before so were somewhat surprised at how disappointing the food was that night.]]> William had a party at his house to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, "Inside the Outside: Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation" at the Katona Museum of Art, Katona New York. We stayed overnight. See the previous seven entries.]]> William had a party at his house to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, "Inside the Outside: Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation" at the Katona Museum of Art, Katona New York. See the previous six entries and the following entry.]]> William had a party at his house to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, "Inside the Outside: Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation" at the Katona Museum of Art, Katona New York. See the previous five entries and the following two entries.]]> William had a party at his house to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, "Inside the Outside: Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation" at the Katona Museum of Art, Katona New York. See the previous four entries and the following three entries.]]> William had a party at his house to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, "Inside the Outside: Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation" at the Katona Museum of Art, Katona New York. See the previous three entries and the following four entries.]]> William had a party at his house to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, "Inside the Outside: Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation" at the Katona Museum of Art, Katona New York. See the previous two entries and the following five entries.]]> William had a party at his house to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, "Inside the Outside: Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation" at the Katona Museum of Art, Katona New York. See the previous entry and the following six entries.]]> William had a party at his house to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, "Inside the Outside: Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation" at the Katona Museum of Art, Katona New York. See the following seven entries.]]> Billy and Arthur were on their way to Pittsfield (The Field), Massachusetts, and called to see if we could meet up with them at Another Fork in the Road in Milan.]]> I ran into Marc and his son and daughter (Marc and his family) at Adams Fairacre Farms, Poughkeepsie, NY]]> We rendevous-ed at a Tavola in New Paltz, NY. See the previous entry.]]> We rendevous-ed at a Tavola in New Paltz, NY. See the following entry.]]> Ben and Cathy and I went to breakfast at Another Fork in the Road in Milan, NY. Tim and Pat came in so we asked them if they would like to join us, which, obviously, they did.]]> Polly Apfelbaum and Stan Allan's 4th of July and Polly's birthday party. See the previous sixteen entries.]]>