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Hiding In Plain Sight

by Mark Seal

Do you have a favorite museum? I have never liked going to museums. I have always felt like they overwhelmed me. I like smaller museums where you don't feel like, Oh, there are three more floors, and if I don't see them, maybe I've missed everything. Actually,­ I really like the Guggenheim because you start at the top and walk down, and by the time you've gotten down, you've looked at everything. So it's manageable. I actually really liked the temporary Museum of Modern Art. When the new MoMA was being built, they had a temporary one in Queens, and it was very small. Well, it was a big warehouse, but you could walk through it in an hour. I think that's why I like the Neue Galerie too.

Besides walking, how else can one get some exercise in New York? I do yoga mostly. I go to a place called the Shala, and I go to Om. Basically, when you go to yoga in New York, it's like, we're up, we're down, we have an hour and a half. Let's just start and do some yoga and not talk too much. Let's do what we're here to do and give ourselves the space to calm down a little bit.



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