On Sunday we went to brunch - which one was the mother? - at The Park with our friend Brownie, followed by a visit to Scope Art at the Gershwin Hotel. No celebrities were spotted at The Park. The food wasn't bad, and is surprisingly cheap at brunch/lunch time. If service is going to be that bad, shouldn't all of the waiters look like models? (They don't.)

Scope Art was great fun! Sort of like the Gramercy Art Fair at the beginning -- nicely low key. There were a number of interesting out of town galleries -- without websites to link! I was pleased by the amount of drawing and painting on display. It's not dead!

There's a very interesting gallery in Cleveland of all places called Shaheen showing people ranging from Roe Ethridge to Blake Rayne.

Others things of note: Stuart Hawkins from Priska Juschka and a show called "Amenities" curated by Pascal Spengemann -- an entire room of works by artists replacing or working with the objects in the room -- a painting in the Gideon Bible (Ben Potter), toilet paper of handmade paper from utility bills (Missy Bly), and casts of vacuumings from the hotel (Corin Hewitt).