"Procession" (2019), this sculpture tableau with the city as backdrop, was created by Nicole Eisenman for the Whitney's sixth floor terrace. Eisenman was born in Verdun, France, in 1965. [One week after our visit, Eisenman and 7 other artists requested to have their works withdrawn from the Biennial because of "the museum’s lack of response to calls for the resignation of a board member with ties to the sale of military supplies, including tear gas."]
A view of New Jersey across the Hudson.
"Untitled (Fan Puuuuuuuuf)" (2016), by Brian Belott. Belott was born in 1973 in East Orange, New Jersey.
On the terrace at the Whitney: Where's Waldo/Mari? (Hint: She's not far from Empire State Building).
On the terrace at the Whitney: Mari with One World Trade Center in the background. 
"Standing Woman" (1927) by Gaston Lachaise with "Dempsey and Firpo" (1924) by George Bellows in the background.After spending many hours in the Whitney, we headed back to Hudson Yards.
This sculpture, "Brick House" (2019) by Simone Leigh, will be on the High Line Spur from June 2019 to September 2020.We had dinner at a Spanish restaurant--El quinto pino--and then headed to the UNDO Project Space, where we had tickets to see "Say Something Bunny," an unconventional off-off-Broadway production of the kind you can only see in a big cities like New York.
There were 30 people in the audience for this one-woman show by Alison S. M. Kobayashi. Mari and I both had seats at the table. I was assigned the role of "Sidney;" Mari was given the role of "June."
"Say Something Bunny," which had its debut in the spring of 2017, is the work of a one-woman genealogist / flea-market treasure-hunter / drama nerd. After we left, we walked back down the High Line to the Jane.
That's the Empire State Building behind Mari.Before going to bed, we had dessert--two small bowls of ice cream--on the terrace of the Chester bistro, a couple of blocks away from the hotel on 9th avenue.
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