1975-09-11 (roll date, image #s 15&16), L - R, Catherine Murphy (top of her head), Jonathan Santlofer, Alison Beall]]> 1974-07-27, Saturday, Catherine Murphy (knees), Joy Santlofer, Pansy (on windowsill), Jonathan Santlofer. They moved their things to their new loft. They stopped over on their way to Long island so we gave them a simple dinner. In the afternoon Jon had dropped me off by a gas station. It turned out the motor on Neil's car blew out, which i had been using.]]> At Elisabeth and Ralph's.]]> 1977-01-22, Cathy's Birthday,L - R, Daniel Wolff, Kathy Reardon, Neil Roseman (1950-1992), Allison Beall. Also at the party was Jon Santlofer, Joy Santlofer and Kenny Barry. From just a couple of friends (see last two entries) this gathering developed into a party for Cathy's (Catherine Murphy) birthday. I mad le Succes (a cake, dacqois from Julia Child's cook book, it came out the best yet, we've had trouble with it in the past being too chewy). We got candy, onion dip and liqour. It turned out t be a very nice party. It broke up around midnight.]]> From the Errand series.]]> I have been going to Catskill Art and Office, Poughkeepsie, NY for many years. When I was struck to take this photograph, I was surprised and sorry that I hadn't taken more of the over the years. This makes me think that I should take regular "Groups" site section updates in the places I do errands at on a regular basis. See next entry]]> Purcell Palmer had a summer solstice party. It was also Jim Palmers birthday. But he didn't want it to be advertised as such. It poured. So an outdoor party didn't work out so well. It has been raining consistently in June. Purcell had a tent set up. Everyone first gathered in the house for hors d’oeuvres. Dinner was served in the tent. Purcell and Jim have an artists residency program at their home, Catwalk in Catskill, New York. They have been working with the Chicago Art Institute for about five years (they used to live in Chicago) and have recently decided to work with Vassar College. Purcell went to Vassar. Purcell and Vassar and I have been discussing the specifics for a few months. Sacha Inger in the first Vassar Alumn to be in residency and is staying at Catwalk in June. See the following six entries.]]> Purcell Palmer had a summer solstice party. It was also Jim Palmers birthday, but he didn't want it to be advertised as such. It pored, so an outdoor party didn't work out so well. It has been raining consistently in June. Purcell had a tent set up. Everyone first gathered in the house for hors d’oeuvres. Dinner was served in the tent. Purcell and Jim have an artists residency program at their home, Catwalk in Catskill, New York. They have been working with the Chicago Art Institute for about five years (they used to live in Chicago) and have recently decided to work with Vassar Collge. Purcell went to Vassar. Purcell and Vassar and me have been discussing the specifics fo a few months. Sacha Inger in the first Vassar Alumn to be in residency and is staying at Catwalk in June. See the previous entry and the following five entries.]]> Purcell Palmer had a summer solstice party. It was also Jim Palmers birthday, but he didn't want it to be advertised as such. It pored, so an outdoor party didn't work out so well. It has been raining consistently in June. Purcell had a tent set up. Everyone first gathered in the house for hors d’oeuvres. Dinner was served in the tent. Purcell and Jim have an artists residency program at their home, Catwalk in Catskill, New York. They have been working with the Chicago Art Institute for about five years (they used to live in Chicago) and have recently decided to work with Vassar Collge. Purcell went to Vassar. Purcell and Vassar and me have been discussing the specifics fo a few months. Sacha Inger in the first Vassar Alumn to be in residencey and is staying at Catwalk in June. See the previous two entries and the following four entries.]]> Purcell Palmer had a summer solstice party. It was also Jim Palmers birthday, but he didn't want it to be advertised as such. It pored, so an outdoor party didn't work out so well. It has been raining consistently in June. Purcell had a tent set up. Everyone first gathered in the house for hors d’oeuvres. Dinner was served in the tent. Purcell and Jim have an artists residency program at their home, Catwalk in Catskill, New York. They have been working with the Chicago Art Institute for about five years (they used to live in Chicago) and have recently decided to work with Vassar Collge. Purcell went to Vassar. Purcell and Vassar and me have been discussing the specifics fo a few months. Sacha Inger in the first Vassar Alumn to be in residencey and is staying at Catwalk in June. See the previous three entries and the following three entries.]]> Purcell Palmer had a summer solstice party. It was also Jim Palmers birthday, but he didn't want it to be advertised as such. It pored, so an outdoor party didn't work out so well. It has been raining consistently in June. Purcell had a tent set up. Everyone first gathered in the house for hors d’oeuvres. Dinner was served in the tent. Purcell and Jim have an artists residency program at their home, Catwalk in Catskill, New York. They have been working with the Chicago Art Institute for about five years (they used to live in Chicago) and have recently decided to work with Vassar Collge. Purcell went to Vassar. Purcell and Vassar and me have been discussing the specifics fo a few months. Sacha Inger in the first Vassar Alumn to be in residencey and is staying at Catwalk in June. See the previous four entries and the following two entries.]]> Purcell Palmer had a summer solstice party. It was also Jim Palmers birthday, but he didn't want it to be advertised as such. It pored, so an outdoor party didn't work out so well. It has been raining consistently in June. Purcell had a tent set up. Everyone first gathered in the house for hors d’oeuvres. Dinner was served in the tent. Purcell and Jim have an artists residency program at their home, Catwalk in Catskill, New York. They have been working with the Chicago Art Institute for about five years (they used to live in Chicago) and have recently decided to work with Vassar College. Purcell went to Vassar. Purcell and Vassar and me have been discussing the specifics fo a few months. Sacha Inger in the first Vassar Alumn to be in residencey and is staying at Catwalk in June. See the previous five entries and the following entry.]]> Purcell Palmer had a summer solstice party. It was also Jim Palmers birthday, but he didn't want it to be advertised as such. It pored, so an outdoor party didn't work out so well. It has been raining consistently in June. Purcell had a tent set up. Everyone first gathered in the house for orderves. Dinner was served in the tent. Purcell and Jim have an artists residency program at their home, Catwalk in Catskill, New York. They have been working with the Chicago Art Institute for about five years (they used to live in Chicago) and have recently decided to work with Vassar Collge. Purcell went to Vassar. Purcell and Vassar and me have been discussing the specifics fo a few months. Sacha Inger in the first Vassar Alumn to be in residency and is staying at Catwalk in June. See the previous six entries.]]> Adrienne Elisha was a friend who died this July after fighting cancer for more than a year. This was one of two memorials for her. The gathering consisted of a concert, as well as people telling stories and talking about Adrienne (see audio file). See the following six entries.]]> Adrienne Elisha was a friend who died this July after fighting cancer for more than a year. This was one of two memorials for her. The gathering consisted of a concert, as well as people telling stories and talking about Adrienne. See the previous entry and the following five entries.]]> Adrienne Elisha was a friend who died this July after fighting cancer for more than a year. This was one of two memorials for her. The gathering consisted of a concert, as well as people telling stories and talking about Adrienne. See the previous two entries and the following four entries.]]> Adrienne Elisha was a friend who died this July after fighting cancer for more than a year. This was one of two memorials for her. The gathering consisted of a concert, as well as people telling stories and talking about Adrienne. See the previous three entries and the following three entries.]]> Adrienne Elisha was a friend who died this July after fighting cancer for more than a year. This was one of two memorials for her. The gathering consisted of a concert, as well as people telling stories and talking about Adrienne. See the previous four entries and the following entry.]]> Adrienne Elisha was a friend who died this July after fighting cancer for more than a year. This was one of two memorials for her. The gathering consisted of a concert, as well as people telling stories and talking about Adrienne. See the previous five entries and the following entry.]]> Adrienne Elisha was a friend who died this July after fighting cancer for more than a year. This was one of two memorials for her. The gathering consisted of a concert, as well as people telling stories and talking about Adrienne. See the previous six entries.]]> We met for dinner at Cena 2000 in Newburgh, New York.]]> Elaine was visiting us and we met Sylvia and Bob for dinner at Cena 2000, Newburg, NY. Afterwards we dropped Elaine off at the Newburg train station so she could go home to Manhattan.]]> Center for Curatorial Studies Exhibition curated by Dan Byers. Showing work by Charles Ray, Barry Le Va and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.]]> 2008-08-14 Central Hudson Man, . He came to read the Electric Meters.]]> I was in New Haven with Cathy (Catherine Murphy) and Nick Adams and Tobias Armborst had taken a group of Vassar students to The British Art Center and the Yale Art Gallery and Pelli's office. I met up with them for lunch and then went with them to Pelli's office. See the previous three entries.]]> I was in New Haven with Cathy (Catherine Murphy) and Nick Adams and Tobias Armborst had taken a group of Vassar students to The British Art Center and the Yale Art Gallery and Pelli's office. I met up with them for lunch and then went with them to Pelli's office.]]> I was in New Haven with Cathy (Catherine Murphy) and Nick Adams and Tobias Armborst had taken a group of Vassar students to The British Art Center and the Yale Art Gallery and Pelli's office. I met up with them for lunch and then went with them to Pelli's office. Pelli said to me that he heard I was doing an installation at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Hole in the Wall) and didn't understand why someone needed to do anything in that space (paraphrasing). He said I did a "pretty good job" (after seeing pictures of it). See the following three entries.]]> I was in New Haven with Cathy (Catherine Murphy) and Nick Adams and Tobias Armborst had taken a group of Vassar students to The British Art Center and the Yale Art Gallery and Pelli's office. I met up with them for lunch and then went with them to Pelli's office. We had split up into two groups for tours of the office. Then we gathered in this conference room. See the previous entry and the following two entries.]]> Chad came to look at the wifi situation for my studio across the driveway. It turned out that, for some reason, the optimum reception was surprisingly good so we didn't need to put in a special arial between the house and the studio.]]> Chad came to do some more work on recording the images from the surveillance cameras for Catherine (Murphy) drawing., "Outside our house".]]> Chad brought the new equipment he ordered with him. He used it to reroute the wifi signal through the wiring in the house so that we would get an uninterrupted signal upstairs into Cathy's studio so that she can work on the surveillance camera drawing.]]> A few days before this entry I called Chad at school (Vassar College) and asked him if he could come over and assess the technical situation with the surveillance cameras for Catherine's (Murphy) drawing. So he came over and went through the manual for the cameras and it's recording device, looked at the extender we installed. He came to the conclusion that we would need more equipment, that he would order and install.]]> Chad came to fix the internet for Cathy's Drawing]]> Chair 2003, 46 x 48 , oil on canvas,]]> Every few weeks there is a Chair and Program Directors meeting. This meeting is the last one of my second year as Chair of the Art Department. I have one more year to go. See the following ten entries.]]> Chairs and Program Directors Meeting 1 Every few weeks there is a Chair and Program Directors meeting. This meeting is the last one of my second year as Chair of the Art Department. I have one more year to go. See the previous nine entries and the following entry.]]> Chairs and Program Directors Meeting 1Every few weeks there is a Chair and Program Directors meeting. This meeting is the last one of my second year as Chair of the Art Department. I have one more year to go. See the previous ten entries.]]> Every few weeks there is a Chair and Program Directors meeting. This meeting is the last one of my second year as Chair of the Art Department. I have one more year to go. See the previous entry and the following nine entries.]]>