Reprobates on a raft - the booze cruise Three Mile Harbor, East Hampton New York

 

Jeffrey Epstein's townhouse after the 2019 raid in New York

 

The Fancy Food Show - The last moveable feast, at the Javits Center New York

 

Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a tepid exhibit, but at least it inspired one couple to kiss 💋

 

'Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art narrowly evades the peril of becoming a tendentious treatment of Edward Said's pop-postcolonial favorite. But the result is a delightful plunge into Ottoman elegance and European/ Belle Époque colonial extravagance.

 

Le BHL flew into NY to appear in a cameo röle in 'Dreyfus in Rehearsal Again' with some remarks about the present sour state of things. I don't believe the United States has had a public intellectual, perhaps since Walter Lippmann. He appears markedly more frail since I saw him last in a U.N. meeting on Ukraine back in 2022.

 

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