The lines at the Metropolitan snaked around all sides, up the blocks, and several people deep. In my more than twenty years in New York, I've never seen anything like that at the museum. It was heartening to see so many tickets being sold for a show of a fashion designer/artist's work.
Bummer number two occurred a little later. We decided to ease the disappointment of not getting into the McQueen show by seeing the Werner Herzog film Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
When we got to the box office, I learned it was a film in 3-D, which I can't perceive because I have amblyopia. I asked the staff at the theater on 86th Street if the movie's 3-D effect was discernible to the amblyopic eye (actually, I said, "Does it look normal without those stupid glasses?"), but no one could confirm. And they were rude. So, we walked.
Things started to look better at the end of the day when I picked up a painting that was shipped to me from Louisville, Kentucky, a gift from my pal and producer Gill and his wife, Augusta. After I admired it in a restaurant downtown during the filming of Tan Lines, Gill went back and purchased it and shipped it to New York. The painting is called It's A Dog's Life by the artist Petersen Thomas.
Here's a bad picture of it taken with my iPhone.
