October 29, 2022
We started the day with breakfast at Gluten-free bakery, Noglu, on Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side.
Despite the sign outside the bakery, Messiah was nowhere to be seen.
From there, we headed over to Frank Lloyd Wright’s classic museum, The Guggenheim. Completed in 1959, it consists primarily of a six-story, bowl shaped main circular gallery.
Over fifty years on, it hasn’t changed too much from when Mal’s parents visited it in the mid-1960s, when it was still relatively new. This is it back then.
And here it is now.
The Museum has an extensive collection of modern art, including these three Picassos
And these two Gauguins
But the main attraction was a massive retrospective of the New York artist Alex Katz who recently turned 95. Here are a sample of his greatest hits.
We love this photo, taken by Kylie.
Directly across the road from the Museum is Central Park, so like much of New York, we decided to take advantage of a perfect Autumn day and go for a stroll in the park.
Across the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir we could see one of New York’s most iconic apartment buildings. The twin towered El Dorado was built between 1929 and 1931 in Art Deco style and is thirty floors high. It has been home of many famous actors and musicians, including Alec Baldwin, Bono, Richard Dreyfuss, Faye Dunaway, Carrie Fisher, Michael J. Fox, Ron Howard, Groucho Marx, Moby, Marilyn Monroe and Bruce Willis.
After spending some time browsing the stores on Madison Avenue, including this beautiful perfume store
we hopped an Uber back down to Greenwich Village, where we wandered through the neighborhood, making our way back to out hotel in Tribeca via Washington Square Park with its iconic Arch. The NYU students were out in full force.
Mal and Lauren 