actually its not. its cold and rainy. so yeah, ive finally made it to my last port of call. i was on the greyhound and we went through the EZ pass onto the new jersey turnpike and i was like oh my god a familiar landscape. i have not known you in so long. literally everything ive seen for the past 2 months (minus my family) has been new to me. im staying in a warehouse convert in east williamsburg, so yes, its twat central here. it has an astro turf garden though which is cooler than it sounds. on first arrival i was like help me, shoreditch has imploded all over the place but im gradually getting used to being back in a 'proper city'. although i still cant handle the price of groceries in the hipster organic store. i also keep on getting on the wrong subway train. can't they employ a designer to sort it out or something. perhaps i should pay attention though,. that would help.
today i had an art binge. i went to the new MOMA (i say new because it wasn't open when i was last in new york but its actually been a few years now). it was horrific, mostly because of the hoards of tourists and school parties everywhere but even so the permanent collection hang i think is the worst ive ever seen. when it first was hung it was done thematically and it caused such outrage theyve down returned it too the most boring chronologic hang imiginable as a punishment for everyone being so narrow minded. nice temporary show of drawings from the collection though. the whitney is better on almost every level although the main show about to open was the same dan graham exhibition i saw at MOCA in LA. so there you have it - i travel at about the same speed as a major touring retrospective. i had another case of deja-vu last night in the hostel when a met a girl from south london who seemed earily familiar. after a bit of discussion it turnedout we had met before a couple of years ago when we both had longer hair. bit depressing actually, its like ive met all the people i could possibly meet in the world and now i just have to recycle old ones.
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