Century of the Child: Growing By Design, 1900 – 2000 at the MoMA
It's not news that, over the course of the 20th Century, the whole concept of "childhood" went from being virtually non-existent to becoming culturally all-consuming. Kids began the 1900s treated as tiny adults–working long hours, no special rights or privileges–and a hundred years later they're hovered over, even worshiped, by parents in particular, and by […]
Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective at the Guggenheim
Rineke Dijkstra, the Dutch photographer whose excellent, at times deeply affecting (and at other times more than a little amusing) retrospective is currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum NYC, was once asked why she so often uses teenagers as the subjects of her work. Dijkstra explained that since they "they have no defined image […]
The Post-Olympic City Art Exhibit by Gary Hustwit and Jon Pack
The Olympics are, obviously, totally front-of-mind right this second, both because of all of glory, etc., going on in London and, more hypothetically, because of our frequent imaginings of what might have been, had New York City been awarded these games. Would it have been good for the city? Would it have been fun for […]
The Department of Transportation’s NYC Summer Streets 2012
Frankly, we wish every Saturday could be an NYC Summer Streets Saturday, with the city’s great boulevards closed to vehicular traffic, and wide open for strolling and cycling and skating and whatever else you’d like to to do in the middle of Park Avenue New York and/or Lafayette Street New York. BUT, with that said, […]
The Best New York City Classes for Kids and Parents
We're always trying to find that balance, as parents here in New York City, between making sure our children take full advantage of everything this great town has to offer, exposing them to new and different things because, who knows, they might find their life's great passion (or, at least, have some fun!), but also […]
Yayoi Kusama Art Now at The Whitney Museum of American Art
We were definitely late to the Yayoi Kusama party, only having "discovered" this deeply troubled, deeply talented artist in 2006, at an exhibition at Robert Miller in Chelsea (which, by the way, is why we love strolling through the Chelsea gallery district, because you never know what you might find behind the next frosted-glass door). […]
The Lincoln Center: Out of Doors Free Summer Festival Next Week!
The New York Summer Festival Season is Jam Packed There are lots of great free outdoor music series every year here in the big town, and Summer 2012 has been no exception. Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park has been a blast, with a bunch of good shows still to come, including The Head and the […]
Kayaking in NYC: Downtown Boathouse & More NYC Kayaking
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve taken advantage of the excellent, still-going-strong free kayaking in NYC program, courtesy of the non-profit, all-volunteer organization, the Downtown Boathouse. But two years is too long! So we’re getting back in the paddle sometime soon, maybe even this weekend if the weather holds…
MoMA PS1 2012: Warm Up 2012, Wendy by HWKN, and M. Wells
We love MoMA PS1 any time of year: the Museum of Modern Art's Long Island City outpost–just a stop or two away from Glenwood's luxury New York City apartments in Midtown Manhattan–not only consistently puts on interesting (if occasionally uneven) contemporary art exhibitions, but the building itself, a former NYC public school, is enormously appealing […]
Lunch Hour NYC: A Fascinating Exhibition at the New York Public Library
Add it to the long, long, long list of reasons to be grateful for New York City: turns out, among the thousands of other amazing things about this town, we also invented lunch! Well, sort of. According to this terrific new exhibition, Lunch Hour NYC at the New York Public Library–the main branch, aka the […]
It's not news that, over the course of the 20th Century, the whole concept of "childhood" went from being virtually non-existent to becoming culturally all-consuming. Kids began the 1900s treated as tiny adults–working long hours, no special rights or privileges–and a hundred years later they're hovered over, even worshiped, by parents in particular, and by […]
Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective at the Guggenheim
Rineke Dijkstra, the Dutch photographer whose excellent, at times deeply affecting (and at other times more than a little amusing) retrospective is currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum NYC, was once asked why she so often uses teenagers as the subjects of her work. Dijkstra explained that since they "they have no defined image […]
The Post-Olympic City Art Exhibit by Gary Hustwit and Jon Pack
The Olympics are, obviously, totally front-of-mind right this second, both because of all of glory, etc., going on in London and, more hypothetically, because of our frequent imaginings of what might have been, had New York City been awarded these games. Would it have been good for the city? Would it have been fun for […]
The Department of Transportation’s NYC Summer Streets 2012
Frankly, we wish every Saturday could be an NYC Summer Streets Saturday, with the city’s great boulevards closed to vehicular traffic, and wide open for strolling and cycling and skating and whatever else you’d like to to do in the middle of Park Avenue New York and/or Lafayette Street New York. BUT, with that said, […]
The Best New York City Classes for Kids and Parents
We're always trying to find that balance, as parents here in New York City, between making sure our children take full advantage of everything this great town has to offer, exposing them to new and different things because, who knows, they might find their life's great passion (or, at least, have some fun!), but also […]
Yayoi Kusama Art Now at The Whitney Museum of American Art
We were definitely late to the Yayoi Kusama party, only having "discovered" this deeply troubled, deeply talented artist in 2006, at an exhibition at Robert Miller in Chelsea (which, by the way, is why we love strolling through the Chelsea gallery district, because you never know what you might find behind the next frosted-glass door). […]
The Lincoln Center: Out of Doors Free Summer Festival Next Week!
The New York Summer Festival Season is Jam Packed There are lots of great free outdoor music series every year here in the big town, and Summer 2012 has been no exception. Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park has been a blast, with a bunch of good shows still to come, including The Head and the […]
Kayaking in NYC: Downtown Boathouse & More NYC Kayaking
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve taken advantage of the excellent, still-going-strong free kayaking in NYC program, courtesy of the non-profit, all-volunteer organization, the Downtown Boathouse. But two years is too long! So we’re getting back in the paddle sometime soon, maybe even this weekend if the weather holds…
MoMA PS1 2012: Warm Up 2012, Wendy by HWKN, and M. Wells
We love MoMA PS1 any time of year: the Museum of Modern Art's Long Island City outpost–just a stop or two away from Glenwood's luxury New York City apartments in Midtown Manhattan–not only consistently puts on interesting (if occasionally uneven) contemporary art exhibitions, but the building itself, a former NYC public school, is enormously appealing […]
Lunch Hour NYC: A Fascinating Exhibition at the New York Public Library
Add it to the long, long, long list of reasons to be grateful for New York City: turns out, among the thousands of other amazing things about this town, we also invented lunch! Well, sort of. According to this terrific new exhibition, Lunch Hour NYC at the New York Public Library–the main branch, aka the […]
