Museum Hopper

as my company does every year, we get a day off to volunteer around the community. last year, i went to the bronx zoo to volunteer. this year, i volunteered for the rema hort mann foundation . the foundation supports undiscovered, starving artists and provides travel expenses to loved ones of cancer patients. they were hosting an art craw l for to raise money. the organizers had selected a 14 galleries around the lower east side to visit in small groups. we started off going to the gallery, canada. you would never know it was there if you did not already know! the artist, katherine bernhardt, was in residence with her exhibit, tombouctou 52 jours, which was heavily influenced by moroccan rugs. we went to another gallery that had sort of papier mache sculptures. the artist called it his jungle. a lot of them hung from ceiling and were influenced by chinese flowers. another artist takes objects that he finds around and call them found art (or other people's art). then he m...

i went to the new york historical society today to see their new exhibit, grateful dead: now playing at the new york historical society . i had to go see an exhibit put on by the museum whose last exhibit was lincoln: the most beloved president new york ever hated . this exhibit was smaller than the other two exhibits i have seen there. very concisely laid out and stepped you through how the grateful dead revolutionized the music industry with their interaction with fans and sound engineering, and control over their music. the memorabilia was really neat. most of it had never left the grateful dead archive at the university of california santa cruz. what i found most surprising were all the fan letters that the band had saved. these fan letters were quite elaborately decorated. the grateful dead did the best to eliminate unauthorized merchandise. what i found interesting though is that some of the authorized memorabilia was first recognized when it was unauthorized. they reco...