I was going to the Turner show at the Met but halfway there on a perfectly glorious day I decided that going inside would be tantamount to a sin so I decided to go to Central Park and check out the line for Hair, playing at Shakespeare In The Park. I'm dying to go, I have declared this 'the summer of hair' and am currently growing mine to my ass. As I walked towards the Park on Seventy Ninth Street I decided to stop in at one of my favorite galleries, the Adam Baumgold Gallery; the place always makes me smile. The show was entitled, Road Works, and included over thirty artists, including such luminaries as Saul Steinberg and Mark Kostabi. It's hard to believe they could fit so much art in this small gallery. Most of the work was cartoonish and illustrative but all were levitating. Some made me laugh especially this piece I took the picture above of, it was untitled, by Heather Goodfriend. Just rabbits marching. I left the gallery with a chuckle in my heart. I walked on under glorious blue sky towards Central Park thinking about marching rabbits. The line in Central Park was too large to even attempt getting a couple of tickets to Hair. Oh well, I'll try another day. I sat down near Turtle Pond to catch some rays and believe it or not saw a turtle walk out of the reeds. First, marching rabbits now plodding turtles. I took a closer look and then walked back out of the Park enjoying my brief respite but now with mind obsessed with marching rabbits and plodding turtles I had a quandary. Then it occurred to me that it's the whole tortoise and the hare thing played out right in front of me. I decided on such a beautiful day it was better to be a turtle today...
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