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I went to a preview of the Met Museum’s latest exhibition, Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll, notable for making it the first art museum to stage a show dedicated entirely to the instruments of rock ‘n roll. The preview email said to expect “special guests”, and, this being New York City and all, those guests were Jimmy Page, Steve Miller, Don Felder (the man behind the Eagle’s most famous guitar riff, Hotel California, which he played for us, in the hallowed halls of the Met) and Tina Weymouth, one part of Talking Heads

It’s thanks to my dear friend Akemi that I filled one of the 50 000 slots that were granted to see a unique collection of Basquiat’s work in New York. The Brant Foundation is a new gallery that’s opened up in the East Village, offering free visits to its space to see the collection of 70 works up close and personal. Simply titled “Jean-Michel Basquiat,” the exhibition was mounted by publishing magnate Peter Brant’s daughter, Allison, and will run until the middle of May, if you are thinking about getting on the waitlist too. This exhibition is a smaller version of the one that was mounted at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris earlier this year (a place that is on my bucket list to visit) and features quite a few pieces from Brant’s own collection, as well as the Untitled work Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa bought for the cool, record-breaking amount of $110 million, and lent to the Brooklyn Museum a few years ago.

There’s a moment in Minding the Gap when Zack Mulligan, one of the skateboarders featured in the documentary, and a friend of filmmaker Bing Liu, skates along a path holding his baby son. It’s a moment that made me tear up, because in the context of the film, it shows the beauty and tragedy of the documentary

There’s a unmarked, modest building in the vicinity of Disney’s Los Angeles studios that doesn’t look like much from the outside. Vault 3 is known as Walt’s Vault, as it holds films and materials that Disney personally worked on in his lifetime, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. It’s run like a museum, Carney explained, as he showed us drawings made by some of the legendary Mickey Mouse animators, from Freddie Moore to Les Clark who created the Sorcerer’s Apprentice look in Fantasia. It’s been nine decades since Walt Disney brought Mickey Mouse to life on a cross-country train ride from New York to Los Angeles.