Friday June 19, Beez And Honey Presents Anne Herzog in NYC!

Here are some pics from the actual opening event. I think everyone had a fabulous time!

Michael Kimmelman for the NY Times About The Venice Biennale

You gottaluv a guy with a good eye who's sensitive enough to translate what he sees into words that everyone can understand. My friend Sascha posted this link on Facebook. I had missed this article somehow but it made me so happy to read it. Thanks Sascha! And thanks Michael!

Hotel Cipriani

Franco, at the Hotel Cipriani, makes my day whenever I see him! He is one of the biggest jetsetters I know. I see him at the Armory Show in NYC, Art Basel in Miami and then here in Venice at the bar of the Hotel Cipriani.

We love the salt water pool and the fact that we're the youngest, hottest girls there.
I asked the boat driver to let me drive, as he allowed the kids to do it, and he let me one night. Imagine driving across the Grand Canal from the Giudecca to San Marco!

Hit the title link to go to their website.

Day and Night at the Biennale di Venezia

Needless to say there were challenges in moving from day to night. With back to back events flowing one into the other, sometimes one had to just wing it from the morning till the next morning and hope that your shoes and your feet held out!

Fiona Tan Disorient at the Dutch Pavilion

This was something well worth waiting in line for; Fiona Tan. It's safe to say that everything in this pavilion was not just good; but very good. You can click on the link to read a little more about this artist.

More from the Biennale

If you weren't there on June 3rd fuhgedaboutit, lines lines and more lines!

Natalie Djuberg at the Venice Biennale

Of course Ms. Djurberg's installation and videos were to die for! Mesmerizingly perverse, deliciously colorful, and tantalizingly provocative, they gave the viewer lots to ponder and take away.

Chrisitian Sinibaldi's Pictures of the Biennale on the Guardian's web gallery

I met this photographer, Christian Sinibaldi, in Claude Leveque's installation for the French Pavilion. I liked him and his work is really amazing; how he is able to convey the unusual in the things we see as usual. Hope to meet him some time again in London.

Olga Sviblova's Russian Pavilion

Paul Laster's written a great article. If you click on the title you'll get to it. By far, the Russian Pavilion was one of the best things in the Giardini section of Birnbaum's Making Worlds.

Paris, encore

Last night we did the tourist thing and went to Le Closerie des Lilas in Montparnasse. It was fun, with the three of us, and Eric, who the girls thought was so sweet. I forgot my camera so no pics, sorry.

It was funny because earlier in the day I had run into Peter Miller and his friend Debbie near L'Opera. I was in a taxi, returning to my apartment on rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, from an appointment with a French gentleman who had come to me at the museum one day, referred he said, by someone at the French Consulate. He has an artist's colony in the south west of France and would like to find a platform for showing his artists in galleries and museums.

Before that I had had lunch at Le Mediteranee, across from the theatre.

Jennifer and her cousin Viviana arrived the day before me so last night they were with me, and today too. We went to the flea market near rue de Bretagne and bought random stuff, looking longingly at the wonderful offering available for the home, if we were ready to arrange shipping...

Tomorrow we leave for Venice, and we're all super excited about it!

There was a wedding outside my apartment this morning and I took a couple pics of the chic Parisiens attending.