Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Amsterdam

BNew oil pastels from Beeks
 



Rijks Museum Amsterdam



A wonderful small painting of the story of the Garden of Eden.

The outdoor market


One of four DeKoonings in the contemporary art museum.

One of the Matisse cutouts.

The usual view of the Rembrandt's Night Watch.

Monday, April 27, 2015

Amsterdam




Always, in the background of our journey are the ominous and sad CNN reports from Kathmandu.








the canals in Amsterdam, we happened to land on King's Day, a huge holiday. Lucky I had an orange shirt on.
Lost cat in Amsterdam
King's Day in Amstedam

traveling to Amsterdam: New Amsterdam


 Sussanah











Walter Rane in the kitchen
















Metropolitan Museum

Walters home and studio














                            Rubin Museum


Ancient Roman copy of the Greek original

Happier days in Kathmandu

Hhappier days walking in Kathmandu with Nima. We are hoping for an opportunity to help. Kathmandu even on a good day is always on the brink of falling apart in a tangle of electrical lines, bricks, and rubble. It is also a young city with thousands of children in schools, many of them in boarding schools, children from villages all over  Nepal. And much of the economy of the thousands of tiny stores and hundreds of guides depends on tourists and hikers, who will now be gone. Fortunately Nima is fine, his family home is intact. We talk every day.



New York City

StWaiting for the M1 bus to Harlem...we landed at 5:30...and found out there had been an enormous earthquake in Nepal...
Fortunately Nima was safe but travel to Nepal is postponed, we want to go there and volunteer to help

In the meantime we visited Walter Rane's studio and home on 141 street and Lenox, and spent the afternoon talking to airlines about our new flights...to Amsterdam

The wall of deities at Steve Moore's

The 81st synagogue

The Rubin museum of Himalayan art.


One of the infinite incarnations of the infinite Buddha

If the master teacher cannot make it, the footprints will just have to do.

Tashi out Tibetan guide suggested that the artists, accustomed to Hindu iconography would mix up Hindu and Hinduism...thus the artist shaped the theology...


Musicians at the 190th street stop

190th street on the A train

Blazing razor of fierce repelling...to move obstacles or to protect...fierce love subduing enemies including the ego...

Painting at Walter's