{"id":1357,"date":"2016-11-19T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2016-11-19T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T14:26:04","slug":"new-york-city-blog-nov-13-nov-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog \u2014 Nov. 13- Nov. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hasn\u2019t it been a rocky week? How many conversations have begin with I don\u2019t want to talk about the election and then you talk about it ad nauseam.<\/p>\n

A Facebook friend posted this:
\nKakistocracy
\nPRONUNCIATION:
\n(kak-i-STOK-ruh-see, kah-ki-)
\nMEANING:
\nnoun: Government by the least qualified or worst persons.
\nETYMOLOGY:
\nFrom Greek kakistos (worst), superlative of kakos (bad) + -cracy (rule). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-\/kaka- (to defecate), which also gave us poppycock, cacophony, cacology, and cacography. Earliest documented use: 1829.
\nFrom my limited Italian I recall that caca is Italian for poop.<\/p>\n

Friends and I attended the second session of Studio 5. It \u00a0focused on The Creative Forces Behind the Nederlands Dans Theater.<\/em><\/p>\n

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To the Guggenheim. It\u2019s one of my favorite museums. Most people take the elevator to the top floor and then walk down. I prefer to walk both ways. There isn\u2019t a bad view in the place. The Moholy-Nagy exhibit was a beautifully mounted exhibit. The artist experimented with the innovative materials of the early twentieth century such as plastic. Alice Martin is the current show. At first I thought my lousy eyesight was kicking in. We walked closer to the blank canvases and I finally got it. It\u2019s painting composed of grids and stripes. For me it was like a textile show. That\u2019s one of the joys of the Guggenheim. There\u2019s always the unexpected.<\/p>\n

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From the Met’s Jerusalem exhibit: The Archangel Israfil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From there we trotted ten blocks south to the Met. The Met has nerve. The exhibit, Valentin de Boulogne, was presented as Beyond Caravaggio. A more apt name would have been Way Behind Caravaggio. The Jerusalem exhibit was very moving. Wandering among the mounted artifacts of the many cultures that have passed through and being surrounded by the evocative photography of this ancient crossroads is moving and frightening.<\/p>\n

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To my shame, I almost skipped the Pierre Gouthi\u00e8re: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court<\/em> at the Frick Collection. I didn\u2019t. It\u2019s wonderful. If you want a full rush of what the eighteenth century French privileged classes were buying, often without paying, from superb craftsmen and artists run do not walk to the exhibition. Keep in mind that Gouthi\u00e8re who handled gold all his working life died in poverty.<\/p>\n

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