Free Fridays @ MoMA

I won't be able to do this in Lake Worth!

Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait

Items: Is Fashion Modern?

Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983

Klaus Nomi, an early casualty of AIDS with an operatic voice who once appeared on Saturday Night Live with David Bowie, made the scene.

Nobody gave a shit if you were black, white, gay, straight or kinky.

Keith Haring used to get high in Kenny Scharf's "Cosmic Closet."

Many of the hipsters at Club 57 hated disco.  Their loss.

Sue Coe: All Good Art Is Political

"Tweeter in Chief," by Sue Coe, nails the current administration.  If the Galerie St. Etienne had accepted credit cards, it probably would be hanging in my new bathroom, where everyone would be sure to see it.

Her color work is just as in-your-face.  Spend enough time looking at her oeuvre, and you'll probably become a vegetarian.

House Hunters: The Golden Girls Edition

Thom, Chris and I spent the New Year's holiday in Oakland Park, a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale where cul de sacs are known as "Fruit Loops" because of the dense LGBT population.  The vegetation looked as happy as Thom in the pool!

Christine joined us for a water taxi tour of Ft. Lauderdale on New Year's Eve.  The guide emphasized the lifestyles (and property values) of the rich but not quite famous whose homes line the gorgeous canals.

 

Dinner plans cut the two-hour plus tour short but not before the full moon had a chance to rise.

Meanwhile, in the Windy City . . .

We drove to Wynwood Walls the next day, only to find it closed.  But there's plenty of other ever-changing art in the hood.

A dead rock star seemed to haunt every corner.

We spent our last day together house hunting.  Little did we know that the Golden Girls would begin the process of transferring our Pines experience to South Florida very early in 2018 with this flip house, complete with a pool and a guest cottage.

It's on South Palmway in Lake Worth, just around the corner from Christine's, where I stayed for a few days after Thom and Chris returned to much colder weather.

There's a local sculpture and art scene, too.  You just have to look a little harder to find it.

Christine and I visited the Morikami Museum and Gardens on a chilly (for South Florida) Friday morning.

 

Go for the gardens, stay for the food!