Free Friday with an open agenda. Stowed my bags and made it over to the Brooklyn Museum. First stop was the Thierry Mugler exhibit. I’d cursory knowledge of the French fashion designer from pop culture, but didn’t realize the extent and breadth of his work. The sprawling retrospective felt both futuristic and timeless.
Next up was the Duke Riley show, also expansive and so chock full of little details. I could have spent an entire afternoon in this section of the museum alone. Every piece was dense with story.
As I wandered the question “How long did this take?” kept cropping up. Turns out, the recovered plastic turned into modern interpretations of scrimshaw (ink drawings etched into bone by sailors) took three years to create — with waste collected from the shores around the area.
Part of the exhibit lives in the Jan Martense Schenck House, a preserved structure from the 1700s. In one of the enclosed dioramas, Duke added small plastic bags in the trees.
Here’s a 7 minute overview of the installation.
After the museum I walked through Park Slope looking for a news stand to pick up a copy of a paper with headlines of an indictment but came up empty handed.
Then it was off for drinks with Rachel. (It was because of her site that I decided to add the serif type to add some humanity around here.)
Most every time I get to New York we cross paths and end up trying to cram years into hours — there are so many topics to cover! Alas, I had to motor but we’d enough time to scheme.
