It's the exhibition that everyone loves to complain about, the Whitney Biennial, that every-other-year contemporary show that takes over most of the Whitney Museum of American Art for most of the spring, and purports to take the pulse of what's going on in art right now. We grouse about the selection, and its emphasis on money (what's selling) and art-world politics. We complain, but we all always go just the same. So the real question is: how does the Whitney Biennial 2012 stack up against recent editions of the museum's signature show? We spent an afternoon at the close-to-home Upper East NYC Whitney Museum last week, just a few paces from The Fairmont, The Lucerne & The Marlowe. The answer, for us, no surprise given the wide range of work on display, is mixed.
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Tagged The Fairmont, The Lucerne, The Marlowe, Upper East NYC, upper east side, whitney 2012 biennial, whitney biennial, whitney biennial 2012, whitney museum, whitney museum new york, Whitney Museum NYC, whitney museum of art nyc
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It's the classic night out, going for dinner and a movie (or reverse it: a movie, then dinner). Even here in New York City, where there's always 20 million things happening, it's still one of our favorite date-night plans… or when the kids are willing to hang out with us on a Saturday night… or when we go out with friends… or… well, you get it. We do the dinner-and-a-movie night a LOT, and have no problem taking a subway or two to really do it right. Glenwood residents living in apartments in Manhattan may not even have to travel that far.
Anyway the point is this: about once every other a week or so, we're going to add an entry to the Glenwood Dinner and a Movie NYC Guide, featuring the Landmark Sunshine theater, a movie theater we frequent and an array of close-by dining options.
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Posted in Downtown, NYC Dining
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Tagged DBGB Kitchen & Bar, Dinner and a Movie NYC, Georgia's Eastside BBQ, Il Labatorio de Gelato, Landmark Sunshine Theater, Little Muenster, Lower East Side, Móle Restaurant West Village, Prima NYC, Pulino's NYC Bar and Pizzeria, Sauce Restaurant Lower East Side, South Brooklyn Pizza East Village, Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery
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It's not like downtown Glenwood luxury highrise Manhattan apartment residents –at Tribeca Bridge Tower, or Liberty Plaza, or Barclay Tower–are exactly hurting for good places to eat… There are a ton of great restaurants in Downtown NYC. Heck, even Battery Park City, long a culinary wasteland, has suddenly become fertile restaurant-opening territory, what with Danny Meyer's Blue Smoke and North End Grill, the spanking new Atrio at the Conrad Hotel, the upcoming Harry's Italian outpost, and so on. Restaurants in Tribeca NYC have always been trendy as well as the nightspots, from Odean back in the day to Super Linda right this second. That said, there's always room for a casual neighborhood spot with an interesting, something-for-everyone menu, and prices with which anyone can feel comfortable. For restaurnts in Tribeca NYC, Edward's NYC fits that niche quite nicely indeed.
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For several years now, Chinese artist Liu Bolin's disappearing act has happened in plain sight. Initially a reaction to the Chinese government shutting down his studio ("they want me to be invisible, I'll be invisible") as well as other, state-sanctioned repressive actions directed at his colleagues, artist Liu Bolin's extraordinary works of public camouflage have taken on new meanings over time, as the artist has become alarmed by China's increasingly rabid-consumerist culture, and the alienation it can bring to the individual. It's great stuff: clever, witty, pointed, and just a lot of fun to look at.
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What is your favorite flavor of Girl Scout cookies? Samoas, right? Ok, that was too easy…. I mean, aside from the odd Thin Mints afficionado, or the even odder Do-si-do peanut-butter freak, Samoas clearly rule the Girl Scout Cookie universe, which is where we all live this time of year IF we're lucky enough to have a friend or a colleague or a friend of a friend or a colleague of a colleague who can hook us up with that sweet Girl Scout Cookie goodness. BUT now, for the second year in a row, even if you're one of the unfortunate ones who don't have an Girl Scout Cookie "in" and you've been left wondering "where can I buy girl scout cookies?" Or if you and yours have already ripped through your "three-month-supply" of Samoas and need a re-up–you can get your fix at one of four Girl Scout Cookie NYC pop-up shops, open now through early May.
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As more than one writer has already noted, at first glance the John Chamberlain retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum looks as if they staged some sort of disastrous funny-car rally down the Guggenheim's signature spiral ramp, the wreckage in each gallery perhaps awaiting a tow. But of course, as any fan of artist John Chamberlain's trademark, twisted metal sculptures will tell you, there's a whole lot more going on in each of these spectacular pieces than jagged car parts. Known as the man who, in the words of the museum's website, "successfully translated Abstract Expressionism into three dimensions", the huge John Chamberlain Choices at the Guggenheim shows off this deeply influential AND totally crowd-pleasing artist in all of his sharp, colorful, often surprisingly graceful glory. A visit to the Guggenheim isn't far away for residents of Glenwood's Upper East Side Manhattan real estate.
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Who doesn't like Frank Prisinzano's restaurants, that mini-empire of East Village Italian restaurants that include Frank, Lil Frankies, and Supper? The answer is: no one. No one doesn't like these places. And with good reason: they're intimate, cheap, tasty, welcoming. Can't-miss date spots; perfect for fun friends-night-out. Now add Frank Prisinzano's newest to the list, the excellent Sauce. Maybe Sauce is a bit more of a party than his other restaurants–the place gets loud and 90-minute-wait crowded–but that makes sense, given its prime, somewhat sprawling Lower East Side corner spot on Rivington and Allen Streets. Basically: it all works at Sauce NYC: go early for the relaxed atmosphere and first-rate food; go late for the amped-up scene and the first-rate food. If you're a resident of Glenwood's luxury highrise manahattan apartment, there's no excuse to not enjoy Sauce NYC.
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Upper Manhattanites: your Upper East Side neighborhood cocktail bar just got a HUGE upgrade. At the end of January, JBird Cocktails relocated up here from a "secret" spot in Midtown, bringing serious cocktail culture to a seemingly random stretch of 75th Street. Why did the Upper East Side get so lucky? The motivation, turns out, is partially selfish: JBird co-owner Jamie Hinojos told us last night that he lives right across the street, and really wanted to have a place to hang out and drink something interesting and good without having to always head downtown. So: done, and done.
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No matter which Glenwood building you live in–whether Upper East or Upper West; Midtown or Downtown–it's extremely likely that you'll find yourself shopping or otherwise amusing yourself in Soho from time to time. While you're there, you might as well get a coffee and a treat, right? Consider, then, Soho's Dominique Ansel Bakery, opened last November by the famed former pastry chef of the four-star Daniel, and drawing crowds and wows ever since. We stopped by Dominique Ansel Bakery for the first time a couple of weeks ago, loved the bright open space (especially the all-weather "garden" room in the back) and made our way through a tiny fraction of the impressively large and amazing-looking selection of baked goodies, both savory and sweet.
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For Glenwood Residents living in our Midtown Manhattan apartments, this photography exhibition is must see. Actually, it is must see for everyone, especially after you've finished taking in all the art of New York Art Fair Weekend. The huge, career-spanning Cindy Sherman retrospective that just opened at the Museum of Modern Art was certainly one of the most hotly-anticipated shows of the spring season and, after about an hour spent staring at the revolutionary artist in all of her many, many, MANY guises, we have to say that, for the most part, the photography exhibition delivers on the hype. Here in more than 170 photographs–many of them quite massive, all of them provocative or engaging enough to demand at least moment of your attention–we see Sherman's endless creativity in reworking her chosen form (call it the self-portrait that is most decidedly NOT of the self) and totally nailing the era in which she's working each and every time. That's not to say that our enthusiasm didn't flag a bit here and there at the Cindy Sherman MoMA retrospective, but there's no denying that her sense of humor, her anger, her energy, and her influence on contemporary art all becomes enormously obvious.
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