Sunday, November 12: Whitney museum of American Art

This week has been quite fun; on Wednesday we had a team diner at Alta (a tapas restaurant in the Village) -> definitely among the best tapas I have eaten my entire life (which is not really surprising given my limited tapas-knowledge).

Friday early evening was reserved for ice-skating in Bryant Park (an event that was part of the Frim's charity fund raising efforts) & Friday night was spent in Nikki Beach, celebrating the birthday of one of the girls in the office. Not surprisingly, my Saturday only started at 2pm in the afternoon...

For Wouter, this weekend was his last weekend in NY (Yannick is already back in Belgium since Tuesday). After a short sushi-stop, we decided to go and see Borat yesterday night, which was unfortunately sold out, so we picked Babel instead...

Getting up early was easier today than yesterday, and I met Wouter at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Upper East Side at 1pm. The Whitney museum is fully dedicated to American modern & contemporary art. A large part of their permanent collection is taken by American painter Edward Hopper (-> Liesbeth: this is the painter that painted 'Gas' [see left] which you liked som much at MoMA -> you should have visited Whitney instead of MoMA :-) ) . Currently they have two amazing expositions running; one which explains how Picasso has influenced many American artists like Lichtenstein, Pollock & Johns, the other one which gives an overview of 2 Bauhaus masters: Albers & Moholy-Nagy.



Trivial fact of the day: on our way back downtown, we stopped at the Wall Street McDonalds, which is an upgraded version of a regular McDonalds, featuring non-plastic chairs & a live Jazz pianist (see picture)...