dankness

The setting is open and light, the exact opposite of the bank-vault dankness of last season’s Armory Show at the Javits Center.

High polish is out; a resourceful and sometimes hedonistic spirit, as well as frankness and dankness, are in, occasionally in ways that verge on counterculture cliché.

That may be a charitable description of the hold-your-hat winds and zip-up-your-puffy-jacket evenings in the city, when the dankness of the fog can make it feel colder than the official temperature readings.

Cinematographer Tobias Schliessler's camera accentuates the dankness of these surroundings, lighting even the sunnier rooms to produce an aura of drag.

But still not impossible: On the advice of a shrink — OK, several shrinks — we began preparing a covered porch space at the house a month ago for the coming season of dankness.