After seeing two wonderful exhibitions of Winslow Homer and George Inness at the Clark in Williamstown we saw two incredible shows at Mass MoCA in North Adams: seemingly several acres of Sol Lewitt's wall paintings and two huge composed phoenix's by Xu Bing made from found objects at Chinese construction sites. There are the sorts of exhibitions that the spaces in the MoCA can accomodate as no other venue can. Together these were the best 4 shows I've seen this year.
At this point it was time for lunch and since the Gramercy restaurant has now moved into the Mass MoCA, it was a logical choice. But we ate far better this year at lunch than we ever had in the old setting at dinner. Colette had a shrimp salad where the shrimp were at the edge of being burnt and I had a fish tempura with chips that was fish n chips perfected, with a spicy chili sauce. They're always had great desserts so we shared a marvelous plum/thyme/ginger semi-freddo.
With 4 glasses of not half-bad sangria andno coffee, our bill before tip was $68.47.
