Author: jameswagner
an interval within the Affordable Art Fair
in between the art 2005
A quiet moment within a physical break between dealer booths on Pier 92 Saturday.
crocdog sighted on Bedford Street
We ran into Larry Auerbach and his little friend yesterday afternoon in Williamsburg. The dog was very much into his costume, so any sign of affection was totally out of the question.
It just never seems like the right greeting for this dark holiday, but here’s a Happy Halloween to all of us!
but flowers are not always required
More autumn enthusiasts in our courtyard garden.
the flowers of October, into November
Just about the time the gardeners should be turning out the annuals and preparing our building’s courtyard garden for winter, these beauties [Salvia Leucantha] show up and ask for their time in the low sun.
abandoned pom-pon laces
First sighted by Barry late this afternoon, just about a block away from Bertrand Russell’s pickup truck.
Bertrand Russell* in Williamsburg
Further to the right on this North 10th Street wall is the exposition,
FORGET
PATRIOTISM
SUPPORT
HUMANISM
*
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970)
Note: the colors in this image have absolutely not been manipulated.
an invitation to the [almost] impecunious collector
We’re back from Berlin, and tomorrow afternoon [Saturday] Barry and I will be installed as part of a panel assembled to discuss “The Art of Collecting” at the Affordable Art Fair.
See the AAF site for details of the program, put together by Janet Phelps.
not so happy about the Bundeswehr
just say no
In the U.S. we can’t get very excited about protesting our outrageous invasion and destruction of virtually powerless nations and peoples who present no threat to us whatsoever, but in Germany a good many citizens have always questioned whether it’s moral even to posess an army in the first place.
Today is the 50th anniversary of Germany’s very controversial decision to re-arm after the Second World War. Barry and I happened upon this spirited demonstration marching down Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse tonight. The sign reads something like:
BLOW TAPS AND SAY ITS OVER!
50 years of Bundeswehr
are 50 years too many
UPDATE: [from EXPATICA]
BERLIN – Soldiers held a torch-lit parade late Wednesday outside the Reichstag parliament building to mark the modern German military’s 50th birthday, accompanied by protests with anti-war activists shouting “Soldiers are murderers”.
. . . .
Police said that 1,200 protesters turned out for the event. Some scuffled with police and threw stones, but no major violence was reported.
Berlin’s tip
It’s a very complicated site for me. It’s how we can find our way back to our apartment from anywhere in the city, it’s where we joined our friend Dan for his sorta-rehearsal lunch soon after we arrived, it’s the highest thing in the city, it was a point of pride for a people who had so little in material things to get excited about, it’s kind of outrageous, especially down around the base of the tower, it’s a wonderful retro entertainment machine, and, all in all, it’s kinda neat. It’s the Fernsehturm above Alexanderplatz, as seen at dusk tonight.