New York City Weekend

Spent the weekend in Nueva York, catching the Mary Beach and Claude Pélieu exhibition of 2001 collages and paintings (which you can & should still visit until 14 October and, given its success, probably a bit longer), then the excellent young jazz singer Gretchen Parlato at 55 Christopher Street for Friday apéritif, plus the French victory in the Rugby world championship quarterfinals against the All Blacks, the feared favorites from New Zealand at the Cercle Rouge restaurant on Saturday afternoon, after a lovely morning walk around the Western tip of Coney Island thrown in for good measure. Great pleasure watching a flock, gackle or whatever the right term is, of sandpipers on the dark green mossy rocks by the sea on a deserted beach. Had of course forgotten my camera, but Nicole took the movielets below with her cell.