I am now at The Peninsula and have views down Michigan Avenue ... and I can see the Lake clearly...
So - up early and off to The Art Institute. This must be one of best (if not THE best) art galleries I have ever visited. I came here a few years ago and first saw Edward Hopper's Nighthawks (1942) and Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930). Revisiting these two iconic paintings are one main reason I come back to Chicago ...
The Institute - on May 16th - opened the Modern Wing ... 250,000 square feet of post-1960 contemporary art. We are talking Koons, Picasso, Matisse and oodles of Pop Art ... oh and a mad video of a laughing clown. This is a MUST see on any visit to the City ... if it was good enough for Ferris Bueller then it's good enough for you!
I interviewed the Institute's Erin Hogan - a most entertaining & knowledgeable lady indeed.
Then back to The Elysian for a lovely lunch and a VERY, VERY sad farewell to Kevin, Bridget, Jason, Atilla, Emily, Mercedes, Charles, Maria, Peter, Sophia et al. They have treated us so well ... and we genuinely feel that we were leaving our new Chicago family ...
Anyway - onwards - and now we are now at The Peninsula.
Hotel filming tomorrow ... so early night!
Song of the Day: Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8tRTZIx298
Weather: 'orrible
erin hogan .. and a "woman in tub" - koons - 1988
wierd huh?
nighthawks ... a classic
everybody do the dinoaur
BRIDGET!
surely not?
