[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-mcintyre-sisters-in-manhattan":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"If you haven't yet read my \u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidficklingbooks.co.uk/blog/index.php/2012/10/18/sarah-mcintyre-my-sister-the-seattle-legend/\">article over David Fickling Books' blog\u003C/a> about my sister (we were asked to write about someone in our family), hop over there and find out a few things about the legend that is my sister, \u003Ca href=\"http://marymcintyre.wordpress.com/\">Mary McIntyre\u003C/a>. I really miss her, I don't get to see her very often because she lives in Seattle. So this weekend, we met in the middle, along with Stuart and Mary's partner, former \u003Ci>Seattle PI\u003C/i> reporter \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/undertheneedle\">Mike Lewis\u003C/a>, who runs the Streamline Tavern with her. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_nyc12_mary_chinatn-bf41cb3318.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe managed to hit two museums during our visit, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here's a page of sketches based on paintings I saw at the Met. (See if you can guess which paintings.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/Met_NYC_sketches_oct12-905a1c75e6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI've always thought this American folk art portrait was wonderfully quirky, by \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammi_Phillips\">Ammi Phillips\u003C/a>, painted between 1834-36. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/met_phillips_girlreddress-9121943f44.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMary's always telling me off for making too many pictures of 'nice, smiling' children. She wants me to show a few nasty or creepy children. So I'm obliging her with this reinterpretation of Phillips' painting. I quite like it, I think I might work it up into a lino cut or something. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_twins_clr-76bef73206.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's our gang on the steps of the Met, finishing up the giant pretzels we bought from one of the Vietnam Vet food stands out front. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_nyc12_met_steps2-61124fe750.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI think pretzels are a good excuse for Mary to eat mustard. She loves mustard and I drew this portrait of her. She's kind of hard to draw, but I keep trying.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mary_mustard-bfca634fd2.gif\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more photos and a video under the cut!-->\\r\nWhile we were at MoMA, we saw their exhibition, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/centuryofthechild/\">\u003Ci>Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900 - 2000\u003C/i>\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/moma_century_of_child-45314ba38f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThey had some amazing toys and posters and I wish I'd had more time to sketch some of it. We weren't allowed to take photos, but here's a photo from the New York Times, a motorcycle toy designed by \u003Cb>Vit Grus\u003C/b> in 1951. Isn't it cute? \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2012/07/27/arts/JPCHILD4.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/vit_grus_toy_nytimes-d41a225209.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nI went online and looked up this Czech video from the exhibition that had me transfixed. At MoMA, they were playing it with no sound, but the English-language commentary on the YouTube version is kind of funny, too. If you are a Nazi and you are bad to toys, WATCH OUT! It's like a 1946 version of \u003Ci>Home Alone\u003C/i>, but I much prefer this one.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"2293\"/>\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ca href=\"http://youtu.be/log1N0cBiD8\">\u003Ci>Direct YouTube link\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\u003C/font>\\r\n\\r\nA lovely \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Calder\">Alexander Calder\u003C/a> mobile hanging in a MoMA stairwell: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_nyc12_moma_mobile-e7dde162da.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMary, Mike, Stuart and I did a lot of walking around, and so much of New York City outside the museum looks like art, too. Here's my sister ogling shiny things in a shop on Bowery Street. I love how it looks a little bit like a \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt\">Gustav Klimt\u003C/a> painting.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_nyc12_bowery_st-de57f33bc5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAh, there was some more drawing going on, as I discovered when I opened the fridge. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ny_eggs_fridge-addbaf3927.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhile Mary and I were getting our art fix, Stuart was popping out to find places he'd seen on old music album covers. We managed to track down Jones Street, where \u003Ca href=\"http://www.popspotsnyc.com/highway61revisited/\">one of Bob Dylan's covers\u003C/a> was shot. Stuart was very happy about this; he's going to feature it on HIS next album.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/freewheelin_pyle-b0daeebe5c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI took a load of photos, so I'll post a few more soon! Here's a last one for now of Mary and me:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_nyc12_sisters-28402105ac.jpg\">","2012-10-24T06:38:00.000Z","mcintyre-sisters-in-manhattan",[],"mcintyre sisters in manhattan",1776628724326]