I just got back from New York and it's looking run down. I think it’s taken this long for the accumulative affects of 9/11 to show. The roads are in ill repair and the subways are looking rather sad. Aside from that, I am impressed with the Met. Particularly the Egyptian/Greco-Roman exhibition. The Met really knows how to show iniquities. I had seen many of the same statues at the crowded British museum in 2005 and I’ve got to say the Met made it all look better and grander. The Richard Serra sculpture at MoMA was amazing. It was like walking through metal canyons. At times I felt uncomfortable and unsafe next to the heavy, teetering slats of steel and felt emotionally altered in each twist and turn. My favorite was the life-size (about 40’ high), metal, sculptured trees in Madison Square Park by artist Roxy Paine. You know the old saying, “only God can make a tree”… well not anymore. My buddy Bruce was snapping away with his camera so I got lazy about taking my own. I will get some pics from him soon. I’ll end this post with my opinion and I hope not to offend…I left NYC with the feeling that the museums there are working hard to rehash and reconfigure the glorious art of it’s past, but they do very little for what’s happening now. I believe the "art center" has moved to more fertile ground…perhaps London, Tokyo, Miami and maybe West Coast. But it’s not in NYC anymore. Upon returning, I felt extremely optimistic about living and working here in Florida.