Manhattan/Brooklyn

Apparently a sidewalk shed is going up around St. Brigid's church on Avenue B. Is demolition imminent? See earlier post: Amsterdam/New York

Yesterday, I scouted an interior in the AT&T building on lower Sixth Avenue, an art deco behemoth, monolithic, but well-detailed. I am most fond of the antennas on the roof, a new feature of the building, which have a Jetsons retro modern look. The lobby is classic deco with a giant tiled map of the world, and mosaics depicting the glory of telecommunications. The lobby can be visited without hindrance.

Later I headed for DUMBO in Brooklyn to see a photograhy exhibit by my friend James Shanks. To get to his quiet, graphically precise work, I had to pass through a series of large prints by Seth Thompson. These colorful interiors of a Mexican village were marred by poor printing. They seemed overly saturated and harsh for the nature of the subject, and the prints were unnecessarily large.
Nelson Hancock Gallery

We had dinner at nearby Grimaldi's, a coal-fired oven pizza place of some reknown. Fortunately, we were early enough to beat the usual waiting in line out front. Grimaldi's