Dear Shaded Viewers,
I should have taken a shot from the podium at the Grace Rainey Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum yesterday, but I did not. You will have to wait till someone sends me a few images to post. Harold Koda, the curator of the fashion museum at the Metropolitan gave me a warm welcome and a lovely introduction, I forgot all of my bullet points for what I was going to say but everyone told me that it went very well so I will take their word for it.
After a tea around the corner from the Metropolitan we went to see New Video Work by Jeremy Kost “Not Yet Titled (Making Faces)”, 2008
showing Hosted by Terence Koh & Shamim M. Momin Music by Geordon & Jackson (Misshapes) at the Tribeca Grand.
Jeremy Kost at the Tribeca Grand -Jeremy Kost is in the middle next to Laine
Zane Lewis and Miguel Villalobos and John Rynski kissing Laine
This was the funniest, I ran into all of my old neighbors we lived at 290 West 11th Street in the 80s in New York. I knew them when I started out as a fashion designer.
John Rynski and Paul and Rene Laster. Paul edits Arkrush. I also ran into Alan Brown who wrote the book Audrey Hepburn’s neck, he lived a few doors away from me is now a filmmaker and we used to study Japanese together. I dropped out because I could not handle a Japanese class when I was trying to prepare for a show. Alan moved to Japan.
Mathias Ohrel and Tommy Salah from the Tribeca & Soho Grand
A Shaded Viewer who attended the Met-Blog panel came up to me at the Tribeca Grand to thank me for coming to NYC for the Metropolitan and for my site. I am always happy to meet my Shaded Viewers.
Miguel Osuna and friends
Florent, the resto that started the whole move to the meat market 30 years ago is closing in June because they are tripling the rent. I always used to go there when I lived in NYC and so we all decided that was where we wanted to have dinner.
Florent and John Rynski and Graham Tabor
Florent told us that for the last 5 weeks before the closing of Florent he will have themes: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, depression, acceptance -closing on Gay Pride Day.
Miguel and Laine and Miguel and Florent
Later,
Diane
