by Quentin Lewis

Weeknotes: 06/25/23-07/01/23

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This Week:

  • My wife and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. We had a great lunch at Mt. Fuji and exchanged gifts. I love you, baby!
  • I finished watching the Netflix Sandman mini-series. The original comic was vitally important to me when I read it as a teenager, and the series did a good job of capturing the poetry and darkness of the comic that so captivated me.
  • In the Museum, we de-installed “Juxtapositions: Warhol and the Baroque” and began the installation of a new show I’m curating tentatively titled “Velocity and Position: The Human Figure at Motion and at Rest”.
  • We had our first Summer Crafternoons! The theme for today was “Water” and our visitors made paper boats and paper fish with designs by our student assistants. It was a lot of fun and a joy to have children in the Museum.
  • I tried to buy Diablo 2 from Blizzard, which was on sale this week, only to discover that despite the game being almost 20 years old, it was not ported to run on systems without dedicated graphics cards, like my laptop. This seems a very silly oversight, but it’s too bad for them, I guess. Refund requested!
  • My wife and I re-watched “The Freshman”, a largely unheralded but hilarious and strange early 90s movie about friendship and kinship, film-making, pre-Giuliani NYC, and a Komodo Dragon. The cast is astonishingly rich, with amazing performances by Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, Paul Benedict, Maximilian Schell, BD Wong, and of course, Marlon Brando re-capitulating Don Corleone. It’s remained one of my favorite films since I first watched it with my dad in the 1990s, and my wife and I quote it to each other constantly.