Martha Rosler’s Meta-Monumental Garage Sale at the MoMA
Everything's Clean, Nothing's Guaranteed at This Garage Sale in NYC This is a blast; the most fun we’ve had shopping in years. For months now, artist Martha Rosler has been collecting donations of, just about anything, from MoMA staffers, her own personal stash, and the public at large, so that she can throw the ‘Meta-Monumental […]
High Line Public Art and Treasure Hunt
We’ve always loved the High Line year round in all seasons. This year, the Friends of the High Line stepped up their food, family, and NYC public-art events in Chelsea. Consequently our fondness for this unique communal space has only grown stronger. The latest example of the creative use of the space is Richard Artwchwager’s […]
Picasso in Black and White at the Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim has always been one of our favorite venues to see blockbuster museum shows. Not only because we love the building, we love walking down the ramp (yes, down; never up), and getting a bit of self-inflected vertigo by peering over from the upper levels. We also love the Guggenheim for the buildings design. […]
Orchard Street NYC: Pickle Day 2012 Part of the Lower East Side Experience!
The changes on Orchard Street have been gradual. Its one of Manhattan's most historic parts of town, with dozens of new art galleries, boutiques, coffee shops and restaurants opening up over the last five years. This Sunday, Orchard Street will celebrate its piece of NYC history with Pickle Day 2012. The 11-year-old festival celebrates the […]
This Weekend: Conflux Festival at NYU
The Conflux Festival is here again..in fact, it's this weekend, October 20-21. Right off the bat we'll say that we haven't been to any of the previous nine Conflux Festivals, so we don't know what to expect. But it SOUNDS like something we'll enjoy. The festival is an annual gathering of urban adventurers, artists, musicians, […]
High Line Events for October: Yes! Soup for You!!
No need to explain what the High Line is, right? This magnificently created and constructred walkway on the West Side has attracted millions of walkers, art lovers, street performers, runners, baby carriage pushers and many other pedestrian types since 2009. As impressive as the restoration of this former rail structure is, it is the seemingly constant […]
92Y Tribeca: Newer, Hipper Than the Original
Four years ago, the 92nd Street YMCA, a great Upper East Side cultural center, shifted all of its Makor program's offerings for "twenty-somethings" to a sleek new outpost downtown, right on the northern edge of Tribeca. It was a risky move but since then, the 92Y Tribeca has thrived, offering the institution's trademark eclectic array […]
Boo! Haunted House Art to See in Chelsea
Our Midtown residents are in for a treat…or a trick…at nearby Chelsea art galleries. There are dozens, even hundreds, of new exhibitions within that half-mile stretch between 19th and 28th Streets, not to mention the High Line, the terrific new UrbanSpace Meatpacking food and gift market, and all of the usual area restaurants and bars. […]
Regarding Warhol at The Met in NYC: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years
The massive, glorious Regarding Warhol exhibition, just opened at the Met in NYC and running all the way through to New Years Eve, is clearly the blockbuster museum show to beat this season. Featuring nearly 150 works–usually of the large, colorful and expensive variety–by both Andy Warhol himself (there are about 45 of these) and […]
Dumbo Arts Festival 2012 Hits Brooklyn This Weekend: Don’t Miss It!
The Dumbo Arts Festival 2012, one of our favorite events of the fall season (all photos here are from last year), is back this weekend and, no surprise, it looks like it's going to be big and fun and weird and cool and surprising and silly and, really, like everything we always love about this […]
Everything's Clean, Nothing's Guaranteed at This Garage Sale in NYC This is a blast; the most fun we’ve had shopping in years. For months now, artist Martha Rosler has been collecting donations of, just about anything, from MoMA staffers, her own personal stash, and the public at large, so that she can throw the ‘Meta-Monumental […]
High Line Public Art and Treasure Hunt
We’ve always loved the High Line year round in all seasons. This year, the Friends of the High Line stepped up their food, family, and NYC public-art events in Chelsea. Consequently our fondness for this unique communal space has only grown stronger. The latest example of the creative use of the space is Richard Artwchwager’s […]
Picasso in Black and White at the Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim has always been one of our favorite venues to see blockbuster museum shows. Not only because we love the building, we love walking down the ramp (yes, down; never up), and getting a bit of self-inflected vertigo by peering over from the upper levels. We also love the Guggenheim for the buildings design. […]
Orchard Street NYC: Pickle Day 2012 Part of the Lower East Side Experience!
The changes on Orchard Street have been gradual. Its one of Manhattan's most historic parts of town, with dozens of new art galleries, boutiques, coffee shops and restaurants opening up over the last five years. This Sunday, Orchard Street will celebrate its piece of NYC history with Pickle Day 2012. The 11-year-old festival celebrates the […]
This Weekend: Conflux Festival at NYU
The Conflux Festival is here again..in fact, it's this weekend, October 20-21. Right off the bat we'll say that we haven't been to any of the previous nine Conflux Festivals, so we don't know what to expect. But it SOUNDS like something we'll enjoy. The festival is an annual gathering of urban adventurers, artists, musicians, […]
High Line Events for October: Yes! Soup for You!!
No need to explain what the High Line is, right? This magnificently created and constructred walkway on the West Side has attracted millions of walkers, art lovers, street performers, runners, baby carriage pushers and many other pedestrian types since 2009. As impressive as the restoration of this former rail structure is, it is the seemingly constant […]
92Y Tribeca: Newer, Hipper Than the Original
Four years ago, the 92nd Street YMCA, a great Upper East Side cultural center, shifted all of its Makor program's offerings for "twenty-somethings" to a sleek new outpost downtown, right on the northern edge of Tribeca. It was a risky move but since then, the 92Y Tribeca has thrived, offering the institution's trademark eclectic array […]
Boo! Haunted House Art to See in Chelsea
Our Midtown residents are in for a treat…or a trick…at nearby Chelsea art galleries. There are dozens, even hundreds, of new exhibitions within that half-mile stretch between 19th and 28th Streets, not to mention the High Line, the terrific new UrbanSpace Meatpacking food and gift market, and all of the usual area restaurants and bars. […]
Regarding Warhol at The Met in NYC: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years
The massive, glorious Regarding Warhol exhibition, just opened at the Met in NYC and running all the way through to New Years Eve, is clearly the blockbuster museum show to beat this season. Featuring nearly 150 works–usually of the large, colorful and expensive variety–by both Andy Warhol himself (there are about 45 of these) and […]
Dumbo Arts Festival 2012 Hits Brooklyn This Weekend: Don’t Miss It!
The Dumbo Arts Festival 2012, one of our favorite events of the fall season (all photos here are from last year), is back this weekend and, no surprise, it looks like it's going to be big and fun and weird and cool and surprising and silly and, really, like everything we always love about this […]