|
carolynkchen
|
read my profile
sign my guestbook
Country: United States
State: New York
Birthday: 8/28/1979
Gender: Female
Interests: painting, hiking, cooking, piano, traveling, rock climbing, gospel choir, and my latest... the pottery wheel (it's HARD!)
Expertise: Hope to one day be the super expert in the art gallery business.
Industry: Art
Message: message me
Member Since:
4/8/2002
|
|
| - Getting in the Christmas spirit with a fir-scented candle (maybe a real Christmas tree next year?)
- The Blind Project fundraiser event -- I'm so excited for the group going; I wish I could join them!
- Nets vs. Mavericks game: When was the last time I went to an NBA game?
- Holiday gospel concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Medieval Sculpture Hall -- seeing the holiday Christmas tree and Andre Leon Talley (who brought the gospel choir to the Met)
- Thanksgiving in Texas: my first time since I left home when I was 18
- Barack Obama will be our next President!
- Mobile Art: Chanel exhibit in Central Park
- Girls' weekend in Mystic with Sarah & Barbara
- Painting murals in the music room for New York Cares Day (Fall)
- Art museum exhibits: Van Gogh & Pre-fab house @ MoMA, Kehinde Wiley @ Studio Museum, Kippinger @ LA MOCA (last time?), opening day at Museum of Arts and Design, Jeff Koons on the rooftop @ the Met, MASS MoCA, ICA Boston (with an artwork loaned by our very own APT), HomeBase Project, Hort Collection during the art fairs including PULSE, Cai Guo Qiang @ Guggenheim
- Apple picking with Tina and Shang
- Outdoor rock climbing in the Gunks (even if we got rained out; will have to go again in the Spring)
- Weddings: Anita & Jason (LA), Barbara & Coley (Vermont), Andy & Aileen (Atlanta)
- Tanglewood to celebrate our 1-year anniversary
- Annual vacation to the Grand Canyon
- Sushi birthday party for Steve
- Annual broadway show: "In the Heights" (based on our neighborhood, Washington Heights!)
- Cleaning up a park in the Bronx for New York Cares Day (Spring)
- Wine & cheese party
- Skiing (took lessons and didn't fall once!... still a beginner)
- Having friends and family over for dinner (hope to be a monthly tradition)
Happy New Year and all the best for 2009!
| | |
| - Grand Canyon/Phoenix/Las Vegas
- Andy & Aileen's Wedding in Atlanta (+ Georgia Aquarium)
- Noelle's Ordination
- Murakami exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
- New York Philharmonics at Central Park
- Boston - Barbara's bridal shower
- Learning to make gnocchi (and sharing it with Sarah ;)
- New Hampshire trip with my old Boston roomies, Patricia & Clara (hiking 8 miles...)
- ICA Boston exhibition - first artwork credited as a loan from APT that I got to see with my own eyes
 - Tanglewood & MASS MoCA @ the Berkshires to celebrate our 1 year anniversary (and saw Steven Spielberg and John Williams!)
- Rock climbing outdoors at Mohonk (even though it rained; hadn't been in years)
- Throwing Megan a baby shower
- Barbara & Coley's Wedding in Vermont (staying in a mansion and dancing into the late hours under the wedding tent outdoors)
- Met on the Rooftop - Jeff Koons (sort of for my birthday)
- Anita & Jason's Wedding in LA/Long Beach
And now it's the start of the new Fall art season... a lot of gallery openings and museum exhibitions to see 
| | |
| I haven't posted in ages, so here's my brief Top 10 on our recent trip to Phoenix-Scottsdale/Grand Canyon/Las Vegas:
#10: Purple cactus
#9: Visiting Vegas as if it was first time
#8: Dust tornadoes (didn’t know they existed!)
#7: Tacos & tamales at Carolina’s in Phoenix
#6: Alain Ducasse’s Mix at Mandalay Bay
#5: Off-roading in a 4-door sedan and wishing I rented an SUV (well, an unpaved road but we still had to take an alternate route)
#4: Hiking the Grand Canyon in the South rim
#3: Helicopter ride down to the Colorado River in the West rim
#2: Dreaming to have the same passion and dedication as Frank Lloyd Wright while at Taliesin West in Scottsdale
And my #1: Joshua Tree at sunset with the mountains in the background (definitely one of the most beautiful scenery I’ve ever seen)
Pictures to come soon. I'll post more on Facebook, too.
| | |
| How do you lose 2 weeks just from being sick? Well, that's how it felt. Now I have deadlines up the wazoo AND I'm moving this weekend. I just got back from my sister's wedding in Bristol on Sunday. When we were leaving, my new brother-in-law said, "See you in 6 weeks." See you in 6 weeks?? See you in 6 weeks! Wow, we are getting married SO soon. It's crazy. May is here/Spring is here/Our wedding is here. 
Our trip to the UK was short and sweet. I never quite got over jet-lag and slept the entire first day. It did feel like vacation, as we slept in every morning. We took a day trip to Bath on Thursday, enjoyed a lovely civil wedding and reception at Grandma Ann's house on Friday and saw the Millenium Bridge in London on Saturday. The craziest thing about the trip was learning to drive on the other side of the road! The first mistake was opening the car door on the wrong side when I rented a Peugeot hard-top convertible! I booked an automatic, economy car and I guess that was all they had available. What made it tough was how narrow the roads were. It looked like cars were driving right into me, and I felt like I was 16 learning how-to drive again. By the end of the 2nd day, I finally got adjusted but it's a whole other world. You start questioning your perspective. In the end, you learn to trust your instincts as cars drive by you at fast speeds inches from your car!
The wedding was beautiful and meeting his family was lovely. Here are a few pictures:
        | | |
|
