{"id":1403,"date":"2017-01-05T10:58:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2017-01-05T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:58:56","slug":"new-york-city-blog-january-1-january-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog \u2014 January 1 – January 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Francis Picabia\u2019s exhibit at MOMA goes from room to room. Each space demonstrating another phase in the French artist\u2019s career. I spent a great deal of my childhood at MOMA, wandering through the galleries, pausing to look at favorites, going to the movies. One of the first painting that fascinated me was Picasso\u2019s Three Musicians<\/em>. It awakened in me a life long fondness for cubism. Exhibition History at the museum\u2019s website is a wonderful on-line history of the various MOMA exhibits beginning in 1929 to the present.<\/p>\n

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I would never have gone to Silence<\/em> if a friend had not baited me with a delicious Chinese supper before\u00a0the show. Fortified with duck, dumplings and wine, I steeded myself for a very long movie about Catholicism. I\u2019ve never appreciated Martin Scorsese\u2019s love of violence. The movie was way too long (another Scorsese flaw) and, at times, boring (yet another\u2026) BUT fascinating and beautiful.\u00a0Also, Scorsese turned on its head the notion of one religion deciding it had the truth and the right to inflict it on other cultures. 17th century? The three western, Portuguese priests spoke in 20th century jargon and looked modern. The Japanese actors in sumptuous, exotic costumes and deliciously weird hair dos conveyed a sense of long ago and far away.<\/p>\n

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COMING SOON:<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: Recent widow Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a stabbed and dying man, deals with the only witness to the stabbing – a troubled nine year old, develops a crush on a NYPD detective and her dog dies.<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek: something\u2019s eating at him: a failed marriage? surviving a car bomb? his girlfriend marrying his corrupt boss? screwing up an important case?<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: Nine year old Dana is the only witness who overhears three people fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who\u2019s started a new family in Singapore?<\/p>\n

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