tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11345956.post-1154924745054479692006-08-06T23:53:00.000-04:002006-08-07T00:25:45.100-04:00the art i almost boughtLast Monday I took a long lunch and went to a gallery show in the West Village featuring prints of one of my favorite contemporary artists, Vija Celmins. Among the pieces they had were two from her series of spider webs, though not the one pictured here (it was just the easiest image to find online for illustrative purposes). In their quiet, gloomy austerity, is it any wonder that I love these gloomyjoenoreply@blogger.com