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My wife wanted to see an exhibit at the Society of Illustrators in New York City.
While it is going to be there for another month, we’re pretty well booked in August.
https://www.societyillustrators.org/exhibits/korshakcollection

So, we got up at my normal work time on Saturday and drove the 3 or so hours to NYC.

It’s a nice enough drive. We take the parkways so you can’t even tell you’re near NYC until you are already in it.

For NYC, not much traffic.

The weather forecast said it might rain. It didn’t, but it looked like it might at any point.

Don’t know what was going on along the river…

Our plan was to go over to the MET (http://www.metmuseum.org ) where we can get discount pricing because we’re members, and walk over.
They’ve got new signs giving the "best" way to get there, so I followed those along the river.

It turned out to be the way I normally take home, but in reverse.

The problem is, when you get to 5th avenue, it is one way away from the museum.
So, the signs tell you to drive around a few NYC city blocks.

I think my way was better, but it was too late…

Anyhow, we got there and parked. Then, set off for the Illustrators.

It was about a 1.2 mile/2km walk.

I liked the place that had the succulents in front of it.

We walked along Park Avenue.

Lots of deluxe apartments in the sky.

For some reason, it looked like the NYPD was taking in a show of Hansel and Gretel.

Not at all sure what that’s about…

I don’t remember that skinny white building before…

But, I don’t hang out in NYC like I used to…

The city goes down almost as much as up. But, I didn’t look too deep that way.

Anyhow, we got there.

It was a very interesting exhibit.

This one is the one that gave me pause.
It is the cover art of the first John Carter of Mars book. (OK, it had been serialized in a magazine before that. But, this was the first publishing of the whole story as a book…)

This story and the cover for the book started a genre of stories that is still around, and still one of my favorites. (I saw Valerian last week after all…) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars
So, for me, that was a big thing to see the original in person.

My wife likes the Michael Whelan versions better. That’s why she wanted to see the exhibit.

You can scan the think and hear about it yourself if you want.

They didn’t have real benches there, but small stools…

I think copies of this hung in half the door rooms when I was in college.

I love the answer this artist gave the person about how he knew what they looked like.

I remember a lot of these book covers too.

I particularly liked this one.

At game night the night before we had been talking about Heinlein’s books.

They had many of the actual books too.

More of my wife’s favorite.

These were very familiar to me, but I can’t remember where I might have seen them before…

Upstairs they had an exhibit on Spiderman. Both the comic book and the comic strip that appeared in newspapers.

The institute is in an old house. The science fiction art was on the first floor and basement. Spiderman was in the upstairs hallways.

I thought this would be good for the troupe.

They also have a small restaurant on the third floor where they have the art on the walls and serve food. As it was just about noon by then, that worked out well.

My wife had the Mac Cheesey Doughnuts.

She was very impressed.

The strangest thing we saw there was the comic strip toilet paper.

I guess you have to make sure you’re the only one who uses it or you’ll have gaps in the story….

Then, back across the city to the MET.

It’s a little known fact that the tall buildings in NYC require people to hold them up.