|| Views of Manhattan… ||

Visiting Manhattan is always interesting; one lifetime would not be enough to discover all of the beauty midst all of the hustle and bustle of business and construction.  After a visit to the Chelsea District and the abundance of art galleries, a walk down the street suddenly comes alive with all of the art at hand.  Walking down the street I noticed a large poster for Zombieland, starring Woody Harrelson.  Something strange, though: a street artist had glued googly eyes on Woody’s pupils.  Further down the street, a poster with a couple kissing had also been given the googly treatment.  Click on the images to make them large.

We had a terrific pizza lunch with Jackson “Superforest” Nash, and afterwords he demonstrated how an experienced New Yorker hails a cab.

Before the beginning of the Columbus Day Parade, we spotted a policeman on horseback in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater, where the David Letterman show is produced.   Note the “road apples” left in the street.  And the first guys in the parade are the proud NYC Road Apple Brigade, waving to the crowd and followed by the High School marching bands.

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we marveled at their new exhibition of The Invisible Man, a tongue-in-cheek Dadaesque work by Damien Hurts.

Here is Keiko gazing down on the street below the magnificent collections of the Museum of Modern  Art.

And here I am in front of the Art Students League of New York, founded in the 19th Century, where Norman Rockwell studied, as did my father before his career as a successful cartoonist.