Tuesday

We toured photography galleries in Chelsea today.

Joshua Lutz (above) was our guide. Joshua teaches at ICP and is a former student.

We started at the Aperture gallery on 27th Street. The gallery belongs to the Aperture Foundation. The foundation

publishes Aperature magazine, a magazine taking up several shelves at home in Yelllowknife.  

The curator took a break from installing “The New York Times Magazine Photography” to show us around.

We also spent time at the Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery where Kristine Potter’s exhibition Manifest was hung.

Wonderful and provocative depictions of masculinity.

Jeffrey Kane's orange balloon dog at the Sonnabend Gallery stirred  interest. Kane's piece

resembles Jeff Koons' (yes, similar names) giant Balloon Dog (Orange): a giant stainless steel sculpture that sold

for $58.4 million in 2013 - then “the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction” (New York Times, 2013).

 I did not see an artist statement stating a conscious connection between the two pieces. In fact, the Orange Dog

we saw was not in the main part of the gallery, and may not have been part of the regular exhibitions. 

While at the Dillion Gallery, documentary photographer Cristina De Middel was Skyped in. De Middel's

show "Seven Stories" is a visual representation of fact, fiction and propaganda. It was not a

planned chat. We were at the right gallery at the right time.

On the way home, I was on the hottest train in the universe. Hotter than Hades. Crowded, too.  Far from the cool

refreshing dounpour earlier in the day.