First off today we walk via Central Park to the jewishmuseum
It's another hot one

The jewish Museum ceebrates art and Jewish culture.  We are delighted by the exhibition celebrating florine stettheimer

Here is Liberty from 1918

Portrait of my Sister 1923
 

Portrait of Myself 1923

The German Jewish writer Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), one of the most important philosophers and cultural critics of the twentieth century, began The Arcades Project in 1927 as a short piece about Paris's nineteenth-century iron-and-glass vaulted shopping passages. With their labyrinthine architecture and surrealistic juxtapositions of disparate objects and people, past and present, the arcades offered an ideal prism through which to examine the era’s capitalist metropolis and the phenomenon of modernity that had its origins there. Benjamin worked extensively on his manuscript, which grew into a sprawling compendium of quotations, reflections, and notes. When he was forced to flee Paris to escape Nazi persecution, he entrusted it to his friend Georges Bataille. Some years after Benjamin’s untimely death, the text was discovered and published.
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin explores The Arcades Project and its ongoing relevance through works of contemporary art representing the subjects of each of the book's thirty-six chapters.
Transposing Benjamin’s arcades to the galleries of the Museum, the exhibition invites the visitor to take on the role of the flâneur, the archetypal leisured city dweller who strolled through Paris at ease, coolly attentive and open to happenstance.

Read more about Walter here