Discoveries I

Charted Destinations and Chance Encounters

OUT AND ABOUT, strolling down city streets and divergent pathways, looking up, down, and sideways, wandering in and out, seeking both well-known and hidden treasures . . .

  • Chain Bridge in Budapest
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London
  • Bremen Town Musicians
  • Bottcherstrasse in Bremen
  • Pied Piper and rats in Hamelin
  • Godzilla in Tokyo
  • Hermes in the Garden of Versailles
  • Paris bakery
  • Overhead street sculpture in Paris
  • Gargoyle at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
  • Poodle outside Victoria Theater in San Francisco
  • Pride angels in San Francisco
  • Secession Building in Vienna
  • Spiral staircase in the House and Museum
    of Jules Verne in Amiens
  • Robot from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
    at the Museum of Film and Television in Berlin
  • Toy shop in Prague
  • Stained glass window by Alphonse Mucha
    at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague
  • Absintherie in Prague
  • Vending machine in Frankfurt
  • The Doughnut Plant in New York
  • Corpse flower in the New York Botanical Garden
  • Stag wandering in Ashland, Oregon
  • Unisphere from World’s Fair in Queens
  • Poster for Les Machines de L’Ile in Nantes

FACE TO FACE with various personas and personalities, both imagined and real, living and long-gone — all with something to say . . .

  • Self-portrait of Egon Schiele
    at the Leopold Museum in Vienna
  • David Duchovny singing with band in New York
  • Woodblock print by Toyohara Kunichika
    at the Hara Shobo Gallery in Tokyo
  • Fashion manikin
    in China Through the Looking Glass at the Met
  • Me and My Parrots by Freda Kahlo in Vida Americana
    at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
  • Street, Berlin by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Expressionism
    in Germany and France at LACMA in Los Angeles
  • Andrew Garfield
    outside Broadway theater in New York

  • Madonna by Thierry Mugler for Heavenly Bodies:
    Fashion and the Catholic Imagination at the Met
  • Photo of David Bowie
    for David Bowie is at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Three women at the Whitney Museum
    of American Art in New York
  • St. Anthony by Rodriguez Calero
    at El Museo del Barrio in New York
  • Marlene Dietrich in street installation, Berlin
  • SeaGlass Carousel at Battery Park, New York
  • Self-Portrait by Martin Wong in Martin Wong:
    Human Instamatic at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
  • Detail of Welcoming the Newcomers
    by Kent Monkman at the Met
  • Alios Itzhak by Kehinde Wiley
    at the Jewish Museum in New York
  • Woman’s Head by Amedeo Modigliani
    in Modigliani Unmasked at the Jewish Museum in New York
  • Dr. Waldmann by Roy Lichtenstein at SFMOMA
  • Patti Lupone
    outside Broadway theater in New York
  • The Brothers Grimm in Hanau, Germany
  • Hopi Butterly figure
    at the Museum of the American Indian in New York
  • Self-portrait by Louise Nevelson
    at the Jewish Museum in New York
  • The Draughtsman-Writer by Henry Maillardet
    in Making Marvels at the Met
  • Shape Up and a Trim by Devan Shimoyama
    in Fictions at the Studio Museum in Harlem
  • Taylor Mac performing at the Curran Theatre
    in San Francisco
  • Portrait of Pere Tanguy by Vincent Van Gogh
    at the Rodin Museum in Paris
  • Ramin Karimloo
    outside Broadway theater in New York
  • Sculpture in Kongo: Power and Majesty at the Met
  • Merbaby in Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Portraits by Andy Warhol
    in Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again at SFMOMA
  • Giant mechanical elephant
    at Les Machines de L’Ile in Nantes

  • Selfie with carbonized Hans Solo
    in Star Wars and the Power of Costume in Times Square
  • Painting by Hernan Bas
    at Lehmann Maupin in New York
  • Keira at home
  • Selfie with iPhone camera in Prague
  • Sienna on the deck