Just my luck (wherein I am played by Lindsay Lohan)

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Back to the East Coast, where every cold sting of wind filled me with euphoria! Sure, it's nice to have blue skies 99% of the time, to never have to wonder what the temperature is, to still have a valet ticket from three months ago stuck in my windshield wiper because it NEVER RAINS (and I'm lazy). But California is just not for me. I enjoy weather too much. Besides, I haven't yet seen skies to rival the ones at home.

In addition to wonderful family, incredibly delicious food, and gorgeous skies, I've seen a lot of wonderful art lately. I went gallery-hopping, which I should do more often, since it always makes me feel like certain things are possible. I saw paintings by Edward del Rosario, truly incredible. Certain things by Robert Williams I found terribly creepy, while others gave me a lot of ideas. Then I channeled Lindsay Lohan in that terrible luck movie. About to go home, I instead went into one more gallery on a whim. They happened to be having a show of Chagoya's recent work. That would be Chagoya, who has been, for several years, my favorite living artist. It was so awesome to suddenly stumble across this room filled with art of his that I had never seen before! It felt like magic. I felt so, so lucky. Especially because his work isn't all over the place - the only other time I've seen it in person is the first time I heard about him, I think in the art book room at the Clark, or the Williams College museum. A college printmaking trip. The art book room had something by him - if I remember correctly, one of his codexes. It's not even that easy to find images of his stuff online.  So happening upon a gallery that represents him was huge. I bought a catalogue of his work.
So basically I've been thinking a lot about art, but not doing much! That will all change in the next week. I have a very busy month or so coming up, so I want to get as much art in this week as possible.