LUTES TO LOOT

We started out the day today by going to a concert of the Juilliard baroque group called  Juilliard 415.  I had hoped Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo might be playing in this group or in one of these groups, but she wasn't.  She's the only person I know at Julliard.   It was a nice concert, though some of the musicians were not as good as some of the musicians we here at Sac State.  Perhaps they are freshmen  at Juilliard.  Martha had planned to go with us but as it turned out she didn't feel up to it this morning after her trainer came, so John and I went by ourselves.  The concert was in a beautiful church called Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, which has wonderful mosaics in the front of the church.  The harpsichord they used for this concert wasn't very good. 

It was beautiful and sunny when we left, but by the time we came out of the concert it was very cloudy, and John said it was supposed to rain today. So we took the subway back to the apartment and got our umbrellas, thus guaranteeing that it would not rain for the rest of the day.

(It's 11:45 pm as I'm writing this, and it has just now started to rain.)

  I got a text from Lynda this morning asking me to go check out a store called American Craftsman and take some pictures. Tim has work in this store.

So after going home to pick up the umbrellas, which we never again used, we went to the American Craftsman store and I took a few pictures.  

This store has a lot of handcrafted work in it, and it is obvious that the owners really like art glass.  That is the major component of the merchandise in the store.

This building grows out of the facade of the old building that was here. 

Here's more of a close up.  I took these using the panorama function on the camera. 

After lunch at the Crown Deli which was kind of so-so, we walked past where they do the David Letterman show.

People were lining up to either get tickets or to get good seats because they already had tickets. We walked around the block for something, and when we came back there was a marching band out in front, playing, and by the time we walked around the band some cop was telling them they had to quit.

After that little excursion I went back to the Museum of Art and Design to go to the Loot show, and John stopped and bought some groceries and went back to the apartment.

The show was quite fabulous, with jewelry makers from all over the world. Much of the jewelry was enormous. However it was very hard to try to take any pictures because they had guards standing all around

It was quite exciting to walk in, because you saw a counter around the middle of the room, with the vendors standing inside, and all of them were skinny, stylish, black clothed good looking women.

 I think most of them were actually the artists, but some of them were museum employees who were filling in if the artists had to take a break or whatever. These two artists let me take their picture.

I made fish tacos for dinner tonight, but the sauce didn't turn out very well because I forgot that Martha just doesn't have some of the things you just expect to have at home, like lime juice, and her aide bought the tortillas but she got flour instead of corn, so the whole thing was just kind of weird.