{"id":468,"date":"2014-06-15T09:40:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2014-06-15T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:40:25","slug":"new-york-city-blog-june-9-june-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog June 9 – June 15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrew Berman, indefatigable head of GVSHPI attended the Frank O\u2019Hara plaque unveiling at 441 East 9th Street where O\u2019Hara had lived. It was sponsored by GVSHP, a wonderful organization with the unwieldy name Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Its head, Andrew Berman, opened the ceremony, shouting above the fire engines, buses and barking dogs that provided a typical 9th street chorus. Frank O\u2019Hara was a dynamo: a poet, a \u00a0MOMA curator and an openly gay man. Tony Towle reminisced about O\u2019Hara and read from his \u201cLunch Poems\u201d collection. Edward Berrigan, son of Ted Berrigan, the poet and a close O\u2019Hara friend, also read.Go to GVSHP Program Encore 6-10-14 to read Towle\u2019s amusing description of the apartment he inherited from O\u2019Hara. If O\u2019Hara did a Rip Van Winkle, what would he think of the computer revolution and the AIDS epidemic?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u00a0Off to the Frick Collection to hear Curator Xavier F. Salomon describe two paintings by Veronesi and the Parmigianino painting, Schiva Turca. Although her origins are mysterious, she\u2019s neither a slave nor a Turk. \u00a0In an early inventory that\u2019s how the painting was identified and the name has remained.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Finally, I finished reading Simon Schama\u2019s LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY. \u00a0His thesis is that every landscape is a combination of the memories and beliefs of the viewer. It was great fun discussing it with gardeners and landscape designers. Did you know there were dragon myths in the Alps? You would if you\u2019d waded through Schama\u2019s fascinating but too long book.<\/div>\n

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