If so, maybe you can join the National Arts Club
and hang out in this beautiful building (facing
that exclusive, locked Gramercy Park). It's the
Tilden Mansion, built in the 1840s and now a
NYC Landmark and Nat'l Historic Landmark too.
The National Arts Club was founded in 1898 to
encourage and support all forms of the arts.
Former members include Alfred Stieglitz,
William Merritt Chase, and Cecilia Beaux (women
have been welcome here equally from the get-go);
current ones include Dennis Hopper, Frank McCourt,
and Alice Hoffman.
This is such an interesting photo. Looking at the variety of people in this from the young fellow chatting on the veranda, to the voluptuous one below him, to the woman in the wheelchair one's imagination spins. Do love these period buildings and hope they and their artistic cause never succumb to "the ordinary." BTW...William M. Chase was a talent extraordinaire [in my opin]as were a couple of his students--Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper! What a legacy he left behind. And what a photo buffet you've presented us with so far, Alexa! Merci.
ReplyDeleteMust rock myself back and forth and think in spirals.
ReplyDeleteMust rock myself back and forth and think in spirals.
Oh. How did I interpret that "r" as a "u"?
You keep showing me sides of Brooklyn that make me want to forego this weather and plunge into some East-Coast cultural depth.
Reading Coltrane's comment gets me into awareness of the age-old conflict between quality and quantity. OK, maybe the quantity of your comments don't quite match Eric's, but with Coltrane around who cares?
I'll bet joining the place is pricey, but I'd love to peek inside. Nice to know it wasn't just another men's club too. I wonder what the black sheer draping is all about.
ReplyDeleteGary! LOL!!
ReplyDeletecoltrane -- agree 110% with your assessment of WMC. Among the Americans, he is my A#1 fave.
ReplyDeletetall gary -- perhaps you were pronouncing it with a Noo Yawk accent? (btw, this one's in Manhattan).
Re quantity/quality: y'all make my day.
uselaine -- you've set my quest: to get inside!
Tall Gary...Love ya big guy! [high fivers]
ReplyDeleteI am not artistic at all but I am ready to tell as many lies as necessary to be invited in that amazing building !
ReplyDeleteThat represents the exact reason why I wrote on my profile that I love walking on the cities' steets : I always expect to "fall" (tomber sur)on such views.
Thank you so much for walking in that always different city of yours and sharing what you meet with us.
Sorry, tiring day.
ReplyDeleteMy English skills seem to be out of reach this evening.
marylene -- don't apologize for your English. It's very good, and you should know it!
ReplyDeletebtw, membership is by invitation only, but they do have some events open to the public (but don't try to come in wearing denim or spandex, god forbid).
You can go to nationalartsclub.org to see some pix of the inside (and if someone can explain in simple language how to put the actual link here, that would be great).
I was there a couple of months ago for an exhibition. It's a peculiar place since it's mostly residential.
ReplyDeleteAm I artistic? Not in the least. I'm still struggling with stick figure drawings.
But I do appreciate other people's talents though. :-) Does that count?
Alexa, if you replace the brackets below with these guys: < or > you can make a link: [a href="http://www.nationalartsclub.org/"]National Arts Club[/a]. When you replace the [ brackets with a left facing nose < and replace the ] brackets with a right facing nose > you will have made an HTML hyperlink.
ReplyDeleteIf I wrote it correctly it would become a link and you might not understand it.
I'll write it again with spaces between everything. Then you can take the spaces out of just about everything except between that first "a" and "href" which needs a space.
< a href = " http://www.nationalartsclub.org/ " > National Arts Club < / a >
(You can keep the two spaces between the three words "National Arts Club," of course).
So let's try it. National Arts Club.
By the way, I wonder if this is at all like the West Coast SF Bohemian Club.
tall gary -- thanks so much for the (almost comprehensible) instructions. Seriously, I'll try it soon. If it works for you it oughta work for me, right?
ReplyDeleteThanks to da man Tall Gary, I'm practicing my first link for
ReplyDeleteMallarme. I think it is going to work. I had to remember to put the /a within the < and >. Gracias Gary!
Of course it would help if I chose a site that wasn't currently under construction. Ahem. I'll keep practicing.
ReplyDeleteDid somebody mention
ReplyDeleteEdward Hopper?
One last attempt to link with a man namedHomer ...and I'm not talking Winslow. :-)
ReplyDeleteWhew! Alexa, if Homer and I can get this link business down, you will have no problem.
ReplyDeleteOne of these days I will get the nerve to try linking. Thanks Gary.
ReplyDeleteI also am not artistic, but yes I think appreciating art counts!!!