We spent the day wandering museums in New York. The Gugenheim was easily today's winner: both the Jackson Pollock and Zaha Hadid exhibits are amazing. Afterwards we headed over to the Met, but we were tired, so we mostly looked at the Kara Walker Hurricane Katrina special exhibiton (ends August 6). This was also excellent.

Like nearly every other museum I visit, the Met also has an impressively huge Anselm Kiefer work, "Bohemia Lies by the Sea." I've been a big fan of Kiefer's ever since I first saw his massive painting "Lot's Wife," which is the single best piece in the Cleveland Museum of Art -- so it was nice to put another Kiefer notch in my belt.