Guten Freitag

Guten Freitag!! Happy three day weekend everyone! Cheers to having Monday off and to Dr. Martin Luther King.

I'll be at the usual volunteer gig tomorrow followed by hanging with my dearest friend Shannon indulging in wholesome deviant behavior.

Sunday is a serious bloody mary session at The Commodore with Shannon (again) and making bad decisions followed by a little soiree in Williamsburg.

Monday is a day filled with (unfortunately) painting my living walls Benjamin Moore Grey Horse. It's the perfect teen temperature thing to do I guess.

Currently enjoying some domestic beers, playing with the free iPhone app Instagram (above photos) and listening to El Guincho's FM Tan Sexy cozily at home. No big Friday out for me tonight.

Enjoy your weekends my dearest friends!! XOXO, V.

I wish I had a pizza and a bottle of wine...

Perfect Saturday sounds while I flip through magazines and get ready to go to my volunteer shift at MoMA all day. I love you Saturday. Enjoy yours!

Guten Freitag!!

Guten Freitag dearest friends! Enjoy your weekend. I'm celebrating Cecelia's curatorial talents and viewing her show Tussie Mussie at Silvershed tonight. There is a reading by Todd Colby, music by Sammy Miller & the Congregation (great name), hors d'oeuvres tray passed and most importantly, the backroom bar is hosted by Cafe Select.

Saturday is the usual volunteer sesh at MoMA. Go see the abstract expressionism show if you haven't yet. It takes up the entire fourth floor. Seeing Tyvek in the evening...Fun Fun!

Sunday is the best kind of day - completely open and free of obligations (for now). Have the loveliest weekends everyone!  XO, Nanook.

Guten Freitag

Happy Friday my dearest friends! Fall has officially arrived with the help from the Nor'easter that hit last night and will continue to linger all weekend. It's cold today! I'm celebrating the weekend with a mellow evening consisting of wine, records and sitting Indian style tonight (yay!), volunteering at MoMA all day tomorrow (stop by and say hello if you are in Manhattan) and then Sunday will be Farmer's Market, cooking, sharing, laughing and being lazy for once in a long time. I may paint my hallway trim but I have a feeling that may not happen.

Photo above is from last Saturday night at the Bushwick Country Club. It's such a fancy place, trust me. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!! XO, Nanny.

Eames Dowel-Leg Base

MoMA's design shop is now offering the Eames classic molded plastic chair with a dowel-leg base. Can you say absolute perfection?

I can't decide between the red or the white. What an amazing design (and as a volunteer I get 60% off!!). The rocker is fantastic too, but these wooden legs are too much; I can not resist. Hmmm...red or white? red or white? red or white? red or white?

This dose of retail therapy will comfort the upcoming winter blues. YES to GREAT design!

Pictures by Women at MoMA

If you happen to visit MoMA anytime soon don't miss the small exhibition (200 works) on the third floor (next to Bruce Nauman's DAYS) Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. The show is stellar and exhibited in a thoughtful chronological order. Artists included are Roni Horn, Helen Levitt, Yoko Ono, Diane Arbus, and Imogen Cunningham, among many more.

Images above are Cindy Sherman, Untitled #92, 1981 and Valie Export, Action Pants: Genital Panic, 1969

Take my advice and do not attempt to go on a Sunday in the summer if you are coming from Brooklyn. It took me nearly two hours to get there today due to construction and the other typical MTA mishaps that continue to cripple the subways on the weekends. I had to take the M at Myrtle/Wyckoff to the J at Myrtle to the N at Canal Street to the Q at Times Square/42nd Street to the E to 53rd and 5th Avenue to MoMA, finally. It was very aggravating. Oh, and I almost forgot - it was also raining.

Anyway, go see the show and enjoy what is left of Sunday...

Kara Walker at MoMA

Kara Walker's installation in the Museum of Modern Art's atrium titled Gone: An Historical Romance of A Civil War as It Occured b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart is currently on view. The work is paper cutouts adhered to the wall. This particular piece is about 50 feet long and depicts scenes from the Gone with the Wind.

"The history of America is built on...inequality, this foundation of a racial inequality and a social inequality," Walker has said, "And we buy into it. I mean, whiteness is just as artificial a construct as blackness is."

The work is brilliant.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

Henri Cartier-Bresson just opened at MoMA. I had the rare treat to have a private tour last night. The show is spectacular. Don't believe me, then read what The New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl thinks.

The exhibition runs April 11 - June 28, 2010.

Ernesto Neto's Navedenga

Last night, I had the rare privilege to go on an evening tour and lecture of Brazilian contemporary artist, Ernesto Neto's work currently at MoMA. The work shown is Navedenga, 1998, Polyamide stretch fabric, sand, Styrofoam, cloves, cord and ribbon, 144 x 180 x 252" (365.8 x 457.2 x 640.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Donald L. Bryant, Jr.

Ernesto Neto's art is known as interactive sculptural environments usually consisting of stretchable and translucent fabrics. The piece in the photo above encourages the audience to go inside the "ship" and engage their visual, olfactory and tactile senses. Navedenga was awkward, sensual, strange, uncomfortable, funny, sexy, unusual and perverted.

I think we all need more of these ships in our lives.

Jean Seberg and Fig Newtons

Today was full. I had a morning researching William Kentridge, an entire day of volunteering at MoMA, followed by a quick stop at St. Patrick's Cathedral and then the usual errands here and there...

I am finally at home (with all the windows open!!) and getting ready to watch my favorite film Jean-Luc Godard's masterpiece A bout de souffle. I don't know how many times I've seen this film. I never get tired watching the costumes, the jump cut edits, the obsession it has with Humphrey Bogart and the obsession I have with Jean Seberg.

Saturday night with Jean and fig newtons. This is near perfect.

Enjoy your weekend!

I survived week two at my new (and perfect) job!

The (much anticipated) weekend will include the following: drinking a bloody mary ASAP to nurse last night's lingering headache @ Botanica on Hudson with Mr. Nolan, et al. I proudly wear my dance-off winner badge of honor today however. It was well worth it.

Tomorrow is a full day of volunteering @ MoMA (yay tours), pizza party and then a little Cake Shop rock show. Sunday is Drawing Center in Soho, my favorite teeny drawing gallery for a lecture.

Enjoy your weekends and here is a little treat from my San Francisco favorites, GIRLS.

Rock On!

The Weekend...

Rainy September 11 night will be one spent relaxing, unpacking and watching old movies. Saturday is a full day of volunteering and a moment shared at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Sunday is shooting images for the website.

Enjoy your weekends...