Jacob also checks the critic’s boxes (and boxes!) of personal papers, scheduled to be picked up by a courier who will safely deliver them to the Archives of American Art’s New York office. 

Jacob zips across Central Park on the crosstown bus to see the new exhibition Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves, featuring works by Paris’s most famous art nouveau architect, at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 

While uptown, Jacob walks up Fifth Avenue’s iconic Museum Mile to the Jewish Museum to have a last look at the exhibition New York 1962–1964, which covers the years that the museum was led by the influential director Alan Solomon, whose papers the Archives holds. The exhibition includes documents from the Artist Tenants Association records, also held by the Archives of American Art.

Next at the Museum of Modern Art, Jacob checks out another museum show, Just Above Midtown, to which the Archives of American Art also loaned items. 

On his way to Chelsea, Jacob swings by his Park Avenue office to drop off the oral history recording kit he used during his morning visit with the art critic. 

Chelsea is chock-full of galleries, and Jacob stops by Galerie Lelong & Co., where sculptures by Ursula Von Rydingsvard are on display. The artist, who was honored at the recent Archives of American Art Gala, has promised to donate her papers to the Archives. 

Jacob rounds out his day by stopping at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center near Battery Park—grateful for another opportunity to see the Smithsonian collections in New York. 

After a jam-packed day, Jacob hops on the subway, home to Brooklyn.