Klaus dropped by last night

Klaus dropped by last night to meet "Frisket". I managed to get two unfortunately sloppy pictures of the two of them together on the promenade: . In other news, the door knob on the guest bathroom has been fixed. With this enhancement, guests will be pleased to not be locked into the bathroom until someone chances by in the hallway. Not that that happened.

In A Bread-Crumb Trail to

In A Bread-Crumb Trail to the Spirit of the Times, the NYT reports on the art scene and small galleries of Manhattan:

Connecting the dots formed by New York gallery exhibitions is a perpetual art world pastime. The process involves matching little details or broad stylistic trends, recognizing recurring themes and common materials, or sometimes just finding the shared thread in one's own seemingly unrelated reactions. And everybody comes up with a different diagram.

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Oliver Kamm/Apartment 5-BE

A sign of the Chelsea underground is the gallery that Oliver Kamm, who formerly worked at Marianne Boesky and Paul Morris, has opened in his one-bedroom apartment on West 23rd Street. For his second show, he is presenting the New York debut of Colin McClain, a young artist from Tennessee who derives his motifs from Gray's Anatomy.