Sunday was really about relaxing and taking it easy. Woke at 10am (after a late night of movie watching) and went down for breakfast. Returned to the room, and hung for a while, reading last Sunday’s NY Times about all the interesting exhibitions this coming season: Olafur Eliasson, Courbet, Turner, and Homer’s watercolors. Also of interest is the show, Sympathy for the Devil, which traces the interrelationship of rock music and art from 1967 forward through the art of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground, and up through Raymond Pettibon and others. Around 2pm, another courier and I walked over to the Arbat, a pedestrian walkway lined with cafes and touristy shops. He was on the lookout for a sweater or sweatshirt for our impending ferry ride. We returned to the hotel via the new Arbat, lined with high end designer stores and large, gaudy casinos. After being quite cloudy for most of the day, the skies opened up and the sun came pouring through. Beautiful afternoon, now turning to evening. Tonight we’re planning to go to a nearby Georgian restaurant for dinner. We’ll see how that goes. I hear it’s good, cheap, and accessible, meaning that it has a full English menu. Plus, there’s supposed to be live entertainment. Oh boy. (Writing a day later, it was delicious and satisfying...)
And there's the whole Novy Arbat...a neon laden strip of designer stores and casinos. Crazy stuff. Seeing these by day hardly captures the magic at night...But to capture that magic would mean that I was out on the strip late in the evening. Sorry, not going to happen.
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