Wednesday October 28th, 2009 - Art Awards

The Art Awards at the Guggenheim NYC are tomorrow night. I'm completely giddy with excitement. If you didn't already know, I'm the executor of my late father's Estate (Paul Sharits) which means that I manage his growing film and art career. Of course, that means I have very good friends in the art business that try to keep me on track. My art dealer in NYC, Greene Naftali Gallery, held an exhibition last Spring that included a four projector 16mm film installation of "Shutter Interface." The tasteful and professional exhibition of my father's art and the film work won international acclaim and was nominated for "Solo Exhibition of the Year, Gallery." He is already well known in the art and film community, but this award may elevate his work even more. We already screen films in every major museum in the world like the Whitney, Albright Knox, Burchfield Penny, MoMa, the Louvre, Pompidou, and the list goes on, but this may... I don't know, but it would be real cool. His work is genius and I wish he was here to see all of these accolades. http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/support-us/individual-support/fundraising-events/the-first-annual-art-awards

Today, we got snowed in. They already closed the schools for tomorrow. We have about 18 inches now and the winter storm warning is on until 6pm tomorrow. The gym is closed due to snow, so I thought I would go for a long walk, but it was too slick. Maybe the slush will freeze and make it easier to walk tomorrow.

Thursday Sept 24th, 2009 - the flu

Last night when I wrote, or tried to write, my post, I was sick as ever. I thought it was a stomach thing. When I was at the museum Wednesday morning, I ate some wonderful cheese off of an anti-pasta dish. First real cheese since the 4th of July. I thought it was making me sick. Oh, but don't worry; it wasn't the cheese, it was the flu. I had my flu shot over a week ago, but this is a little differ4ent than my last flu. I have a headache, stomach ache, fever, fatigue, and now a runny nose. Cheri thinks I need to be checked for H1N1. I really try to take care of myself so I can deal with these stupid issues, but the truth is I have a weakened immune system and it puts me into a particularly high risk category. I'll call my doctor in the morning and ask him when I should consider getting tested. Yippie.

I weighed 314.8 pounds this morning and I'm bound to weigh less tomorrow morning because I haven't been able to eat much. Obviously, no workout today. But, I did run all of my errands like buying Cheri her Birthday present and rotating her tires and buying her a new cell phone and picking up all my prescriptions because I knew I would get grounded to the house tomorrow. I was very careful so I don't think I was a risk to anybody else, but Cheri is making me wear those stupid masks.

Okay. Wait. One real cool thing is that the Guggenheim finally made the nominees public. We are in a category with Cindy Sherman, Piero Manzoni, and Picasso.And yet, I think we have a real good chance. You can see all of the nominees for the Art Awards at http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/upcoming/first-annual-art-awards