Wedding watchers are decked out in frilly hats and fancy frocks at the unofficial home of the expat British in New York, Tea & Sympathy. I wander to Washington Square. Barricaded lines form to spot Glee Club cast members. I would have expected that in New York where celebrities are aplenty, crowds do not go ga-ga over well known personalities. I continue on through Greenwich to the New Museum. George Condo’s exhibition has a sense of old world familiarity: grotesque figures are presented in colours and poses of old masters. I make my way back uptown juxtaposing my day viewing the wild conceptual works at New Museum with rich hued Klimt’s and Schiele’s at the Neue Galerie. I stop at the Viennese styled Cafe Sabarsky for more richness--a multilayered hazelnut chocolate torte.
I meet with Dominik, whom I had met along with his friends in Monteverde, Costa Rica a few months back (November 20 blog entry). He introduces me to a Flatiron District roof top garden for a stunning view of the lighted Empire State Building. Chrysler building shines in the distance. I get a good taste of a New Yorker’s life.
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