Powering through the heat

Saturday was another super-hot day. Walked though Essex Street Market and hit 3 art galleries on the Lower East Side with Grace. Most provocative was Sunday, which is currently showing sculptures by a NYC artist and posters by a folk artist from Louisiana.

Headed to PS1's Warm Up with Enda and Niall. Actually didn't check out any of the exhibitions (I was a little art-ed out after going to the other galleries earlier in the day). The installations in the courtyard are not so great this year. Last year's looked more modern, and back then there were misters, a wading pool and an igloo-like room full of ice for people to cool off. This year the courtyard looks like a flamingo threw up in it (pink canopies); there are some hammock-like seats and a weird platform where buckets of water periodically tip over to douse whoever happens to be under/near it at the time.

Ran into Ab and Malinda at PS1. Hung out there til 8 pm. Took a gypsy cab to Water Taxi Beach, which ultimately we couldn't enter because 3 of the 5 of us didn't have ID. Took a water taxi back to Manhattan and had dinner at Rodeo Bar. Enjoyed yummy margaritas and some live country music. Yodeling was involved. (The band's singer yodeled, not me. I swear.)


Pink installation in the PS1 courtyard.


Overcompensating for buying too much beer.


WTF? Members of the chorus backing up the band Flaming Fire.


Graffiti-covered building in Long Island City, Queens.