Openhouse Gallery’s Park Here: An Indoor Pop-Up Park in Nolita
Openhouse Gallery’s Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park was a favorite oasis of ours last winter, a surprisingly pleasant and comfortable place in Nolita to sit with friends and snack and chat, or to stop in alone and read or work or, yes, maybe take a little nap. You know: things you might do in […]
Met Exhibit: Sumptuous Art of the Arab Lands Galleries Now Open
It took more than eight years of rethinking, redesigning, and renovating, but last month the Metropolitan Museum of Art finally reopened their world-class Islamic art exhibits in the Art of the Arab Lands galleries, and the appreciation and acclaim for all of their hard work as been both universal and well deserved. By increasing the […]
Art in NYC: The Art Students League of New York
The Art Students League of New York has been around for 136 years now, and counts among its former faculty and students such 20th-century giants as Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko, Georgia O’Keefe, Maurice Sendak, Donald Judd, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jackson Pollock. The Art Students League’s NYC building on West 57th Street is a […]
The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951, at the Jewish Museum
With its more than 140 photographs–often iconic, always engaging, and mostly taken on the streets of our beloved New York City, through the Depression, the War, and the post-war, ultimately red-baiting, years to follow–the Radical Camera exhibition at the Jewish Museum’s mansion-y home on Fifth Avenue would be a noteworthy addition to the season’s cultural […]
New York Museums: The New-York Historical Society Reinvents Itself
Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is the oldest museum in all of New York City, beating out its across-the-park neighbor, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by some 70 years; its vast holdings of artworks–more than 1.6 million pieces!–historical objects, and all manner of printed material, much of it quite rare, making it a […]
Off-Beat NYC Holiday Events Happening This Week!
There are, of course, dozens of holiday celebrations all over town this month, from the somewhat pricey but undeniably lovely (the Family Hanukkah Party at the Jewish Museum on December 14; Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice Celebration at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on December 15 – 17), to the totally free and still […]
Alexander Calder Mobiles and Stabiles: Calder 1941 Exhibition at Pace Gallery 57th Street
It was one of the great outpourings that the art world had ever seen: in 1941, Alexander Calder, having worked with his signature mobiles and stabiles for almost a decade, just exploded with creative innovation and energy, pushing his now-familiar form into new territory. Alexander Calder mobiles had bolder colors, a greater variety, and, thanks […]
Ice Skating (and More!) in Bryant Park 2011
We know that the great free skating rink in Bryant Park–aka, Citi Pond–has been open for almost a month already, but for us, outdoor ice skating season doesn’t really kick in until Thanksgiving week. Which is now. Which is why we went to Citi Pond a couple of days ago for the first time this […]
Andreas Gursky at Gagosian Gallery and Edward Burtynsky at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
We’re total fans of both Andreas Gursky and Edward Burtynsky, hall-of-fame photographers whose signature work over the years has been massive prints of huge and busy urban and/or industrial landscapes. As good fortune would have it, both artists currently have exhibitions in Chelsea: Andreas Gursky at the Gagosian Gallery on 21st Street, and Edward Burtynsky […]
Canstruction NYC 2011, Through Monday, November 21 Only!
Attentive Glenwood readers already know that we’re big Canstruction NYC fans, having gone to Canstruction in 2009 and Canstruction in 2010 at the World Financial Center. For those unfamiliar, Canstruction is an architecture/engineering extravaganza, for which some of the city’s top firms design and construct fabulously elaborate, often whimsical sculptural structures made entirely of cans of food. […]
Openhouse Gallery’s Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park was a favorite oasis of ours last winter, a surprisingly pleasant and comfortable place in Nolita to sit with friends and snack and chat, or to stop in alone and read or work or, yes, maybe take a little nap. You know: things you might do in […]
Met Exhibit: Sumptuous Art of the Arab Lands Galleries Now Open
It took more than eight years of rethinking, redesigning, and renovating, but last month the Metropolitan Museum of Art finally reopened their world-class Islamic art exhibits in the Art of the Arab Lands galleries, and the appreciation and acclaim for all of their hard work as been both universal and well deserved. By increasing the […]
Art in NYC: The Art Students League of New York
The Art Students League of New York has been around for 136 years now, and counts among its former faculty and students such 20th-century giants as Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko, Georgia O’Keefe, Maurice Sendak, Donald Judd, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jackson Pollock. The Art Students League’s NYC building on West 57th Street is a […]
The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951, at the Jewish Museum
With its more than 140 photographs–often iconic, always engaging, and mostly taken on the streets of our beloved New York City, through the Depression, the War, and the post-war, ultimately red-baiting, years to follow–the Radical Camera exhibition at the Jewish Museum’s mansion-y home on Fifth Avenue would be a noteworthy addition to the season’s cultural […]
New York Museums: The New-York Historical Society Reinvents Itself
Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is the oldest museum in all of New York City, beating out its across-the-park neighbor, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by some 70 years; its vast holdings of artworks–more than 1.6 million pieces!–historical objects, and all manner of printed material, much of it quite rare, making it a […]
Off-Beat NYC Holiday Events Happening This Week!
There are, of course, dozens of holiday celebrations all over town this month, from the somewhat pricey but undeniably lovely (the Family Hanukkah Party at the Jewish Museum on December 14; Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice Celebration at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on December 15 – 17), to the totally free and still […]
Alexander Calder Mobiles and Stabiles: Calder 1941 Exhibition at Pace Gallery 57th Street
It was one of the great outpourings that the art world had ever seen: in 1941, Alexander Calder, having worked with his signature mobiles and stabiles for almost a decade, just exploded with creative innovation and energy, pushing his now-familiar form into new territory. Alexander Calder mobiles had bolder colors, a greater variety, and, thanks […]
Ice Skating (and More!) in Bryant Park 2011
We know that the great free skating rink in Bryant Park–aka, Citi Pond–has been open for almost a month already, but for us, outdoor ice skating season doesn’t really kick in until Thanksgiving week. Which is now. Which is why we went to Citi Pond a couple of days ago for the first time this […]
Andreas Gursky at Gagosian Gallery and Edward Burtynsky at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
We’re total fans of both Andreas Gursky and Edward Burtynsky, hall-of-fame photographers whose signature work over the years has been massive prints of huge and busy urban and/or industrial landscapes. As good fortune would have it, both artists currently have exhibitions in Chelsea: Andreas Gursky at the Gagosian Gallery on 21st Street, and Edward Burtynsky […]
Canstruction NYC 2011, Through Monday, November 21 Only!
Attentive Glenwood readers already know that we’re big Canstruction NYC fans, having gone to Canstruction in 2009 and Canstruction in 2010 at the World Financial Center. For those unfamiliar, Canstruction is an architecture/engineering extravaganza, for which some of the city’s top firms design and construct fabulously elaborate, often whimsical sculptural structures made entirely of cans of food. […]
