Douglas Witmer
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Highlights of 2004
Just bringing the year to a close. Here are some highlights from the year, in no particular order, and I just know I'm forgetting some really important stuff:Salena: my baby daughter. Who would have thought there could be such a delightful little person?
MINUS SPACE The domain for reductive + conceptual art
Sufjan Stevens "Greetings from Michigan" & "Seven Swans"
My recent NYC trip with my friend Bill where we saw Field of Color--Tantra Drawings from India at the Drawing Center (a post is coming on this). We went to the Met, too. It was the first day they had their new little Duccio piece on display. And we serendipitously saw some other knock-out Sienese devotional panels that were temporarily on loan from Yale. (including one of my all time favorite paintings, which I had never seen before in real life, a scene of St. Anthony in the desert by the Osservanza Master, image below)
GarageBand
Visiting Dia:Beacon with our friends Tim & Vicki
Here's some stuff that falls under the general category of "re-connecting:"
--Getting to know my youngest brother David
--Running into my old friend Phil, who I'd last seen/heard from in Cincinnati in 1998, at 21st & Walnut at 4:30 on a September afternoon. He'd been living in Philadelphia for nearly 4 years.
--American Music Club got back together after 10 years apart and put out a pretty decent record
--Remembering the evening in August, sitting on a rooftop patio above the condo my folks rented in Ocean City, getting a call from my friend Daryl in SF, watching the sunset over the back bay and celebrating with him as he headed out...following yet another dream and moving to Mexico.
Kings of Convenience "Riot on an Empty Street" (hopefully I'll get some music streaming soon...stay tuned!)
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