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Deborah Zlotsky
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Behind the scenes at the museum

So long, 2020!

A cold December night

Someday, 2020 will make sense. As the year draws to a close, there are a few pre-pandemic “lasts” to remember.

  • Last movie at a movie theater: “1917” on Feb. 2 — Glad I saw it in a theater on a big screen. At the theater I often go to, there is rarely a big crowd for the movies I want to see (and by then “1917” had been out for a while).
  • Last meal in a restaurant: Le Colonne Restaurant at the Hilton Hotel at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport on March 11 — The food was fine — I can’t remember what we had, but tables had been spread apart for social distancing, and there were diners at only about four other tables. We were only there to be sure to get our morning flight out of Rome, leaving the country early as more and more flights were being canceled, including our flights out of Genoa.
  • Last workout at the gym: Feb. 29 — I did some warmups and cooldowns, with a 5K run on the indoor track in between at a time of 33 minutes and 22 seconds
  • Last day working in person at the office: Tuesday, March 3.
  • Last time I had a cold: Maybe sometime in 2019
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My latest purchase: Ruth Asawa stamps

Fighting fascism with capitalism

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Are you familiar with Ruth Asawa? Get to know more about this great American artist here: https://ruthasawa.com/

Also check out the exhibition from David Zwirner Gallery in 2017 here https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/ruth-asawa

Christian Marclay’s ’48 War Movies’

48 War Movies (2019) is a single-channel video that collapses conflicts from the Civil War to Iraq into a horrifying aggregate spectacle of war. Dramatizations are collaged into almost indistinguishable narratives and presented through concentric rectangles, like a flickering conveyor belt of popular cultural content. The forty-eight war films play simultaneously and continuously, and the accompanying soundtrack generates an indecipherable cacophony of wartime sounds. (Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC)

Friday Photo: 飴細工 (amezaiku)

飴細工 (amezaiku) goldfish in the Like Sugar exhibition Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 4, 2019.

Friday Photo: Swimming Pool, Salvador Dalí

Dalí Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool, 1970, by Salvador Dalí, Port Lligat, Spain, June 2018

Friday Photo: Dan Flavin and Me

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Dan Flavin artwork and me at David Zwirner Gallery, March 9, 2018 (Photo by Deborah Zlotsky)

Friday Photo: Installation by artist Elizabeth Kley

Installation by artist Elisabeth Kley at the Canada Gallery booth at the Independent Art Fair in New York City, March 2018.