Category: New York

A few days in May in New York followed by some time on Cape Cod. in New York there were the usual visits to The Met (the Sargent exhibition), The Morgan library, and the reopening of The Frick Collection. At the Met I saw John Adams’s new “Antony and Cleopatra”.

It has been bitterly cold, a touch of snow and sometimes stiff winds that cut through the heaviest of parkas, but it has been a lovely time. There was a bit of shopping, a lot of window shopping, dinner with Hartford friends who have retired to New York and a splendid high tea at The…

New York City in the fall is always great fun. I spent several days in the City at The Met (Painting in Siena 1300-1350), lots of familiar painters. And a visit to The Morgan Library and then the annual investiture of the Order of St John.