The windows of New York deserve a photo project all their own.

It doesn’t have to be on canvas, it doesn’t have to use oil paint, or acrylic, or watercolor. You don’t have to be commissioned to do it, or even want to do it.

Put on some jeans that can stand up to creativity, and pick up a brush to do some paint-pushing, paint-splashing.

Last Friday.

Midday refraction.

Look up.

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ritual Coffee’s Columbia on V60, cortado, and croissant at Sweetleaf in LIC.

The good vibes and great coffee were definitely worth the trek out here.

Not sure what time it is over there, but it’s coffee o’clock over here.

Gutai: Splendid Playground at the Guggenheim.

Personally, I’m not a big fan of the Guggenheim. But this exhibition is provocative and poignant, well worth the few hours that it takes to walk through it. 

Gutai: Splendid Playground presents the creative spectrum of Japan’s most influential avant-garde collective of the postwar era. Founded by the visionary artist Yoshihara Jirō in 1954, the Gutai group was legendary in its own time. Its young members explored new art forms combining performance, painting, and interactive environments, and realized an “international common ground” of experimental art through the worldwide reach of their exhibition and publication activities. Against the backdrop of wartime totalitarianism, Gutai forged an ethics of creative freedom, breaking through myriad boundaries to create some of the most exuberant works and events in the history of Japanese and international avant-garde art.

Nel drip at Blue Bottle Coffee.

Brewed through a cotton filter with a high coffee-water ratio, resulting in an extremely clean, almost underextracted brew. 

Alex (thrilled) at the Met.