de Kooning: A Retrospective at the MoMA
The MoMA unveils the first big NYC museum show of the season, and it's a doozy. de Kooning: A Retrospective, now at the Museum of Modern Art, is a huge exhibition, taking up the MoMA's entire sixth floor with almost 200 of de Kooning's paintings, as well as some prints, drawings and sculptures. As the […]
Richard Serra Junction & Cycle at Gagosian Chelsea NYC Gallery
Two New Richard Serra Sculptures installed at Larry Gagosian Chelsea Gallery As usual, Larry Gagosian offers up the biggest show in Chelsea, NYC to start off the fall season. And we mean that literally: the biggest. Also: the heaviest, by about a gigaton or two. Yes, Richard Serra is working his usual massive-rusted-steel-plates magic here […]
David Byrne: Tight Spot and Social Media, at Pace Gallery in Chelsea
The Chelsea gallery fall season is now in full swing, and last night we were lucky enough to attend one of the coolest openings in town, the panel discussion and party for music legend / author / conceptual artist / bicycle advocate David Byrne's dramatic sound and sculptural installation Tight Spot, as well the excellent […]
9/11 memorial 10th Anniversary Photography Exhibition: here is new york: Revisited” at SVA until September 17
Ten years ago, just two weeks after September 11, 2001 a storefront on Prince Street was transformed almost on-the-fly into a remarkable photography exhibition, taken and donated by amateurs and professionals alike, of the attacks of that terrifying morning on 9/11, and in those strange, horrible days that followed. You could buy prints of any […]
Jane’s Carousel Opening Next Week Under the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC
For more than 20 years, Brooklyn artist Jane Walentas has been overseeing the meticulous restoration of 48 wooden horses, a stable-full of palominos, bays, and ponies that first began saddling up back in 1922, in Youngstown, Ohio, and then on Water Street in DUMBO, until Walentas took them into rehab in 1984. Next week, on […]
Dekalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn: good food, unusual stores, lots of fun!
Add the friendly, neatly-designed, packed-with-tasty-treats Dekalb Market to your list of fun things to do in Brooklyn. Launched this summer on a vacant lot near the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn (and, thus, near many subway lines), the Dekalb Market is different from all of the other excellent markets that have been cropping up these […]
The High Line Rink: Uniqlo New York Sponsors Roller Skating Under One of NYC Best Parks!
Roller skating plus tacos trucks plus beer plus the High Line?! Sign us up! A few weeks ago the excellent Friends of the High Line teamed up with the Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo and plopped down the expansive High Line Roller Rink at the northern end of what has become one New York City's great […]
Downtown Culture Pass and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Two Smart Ways to Explore the Tip of the Island
There's always a million great things to do in this city, with new events, exhibitions, stores, restaurants, pop-ups, shows, parks, and recreations vying for your attention (and paycheck) all day, every day. And that's fantastic, of course — it's one of the reasons why we love living here — but it does mean that under-hyped […]
BMW Guggenheim Lab NYC An Urban Environment Experiment
It's difficult to explain exactly what the BMW Guggenheim Lab is all about in a sentence or two — which is why they've posted a three-minute video on the BMW Guggenheim Lab website under the question "What is the Lab?" — but we can tell you this: we've stopped by a few times already to […]
“Talk to Me” at MoMA New York: Design and Communication
First, a caveat about the small but lively exhibition "Talk to Me: Design and Communication between People and Objects" just opened on the third floor of the Museum of Modern Art: if you spend any time looking at design websites, blogs or tumblrs, you've probably already seen a lot this online. We're kind of obsessed […]
The MoMA unveils the first big NYC museum show of the season, and it's a doozy. de Kooning: A Retrospective, now at the Museum of Modern Art, is a huge exhibition, taking up the MoMA's entire sixth floor with almost 200 of de Kooning's paintings, as well as some prints, drawings and sculptures. As the […]
Richard Serra Junction & Cycle at Gagosian Chelsea NYC Gallery
Two New Richard Serra Sculptures installed at Larry Gagosian Chelsea Gallery As usual, Larry Gagosian offers up the biggest show in Chelsea, NYC to start off the fall season. And we mean that literally: the biggest. Also: the heaviest, by about a gigaton or two. Yes, Richard Serra is working his usual massive-rusted-steel-plates magic here […]
David Byrne: Tight Spot and Social Media, at Pace Gallery in Chelsea
The Chelsea gallery fall season is now in full swing, and last night we were lucky enough to attend one of the coolest openings in town, the panel discussion and party for music legend / author / conceptual artist / bicycle advocate David Byrne's dramatic sound and sculptural installation Tight Spot, as well the excellent […]
9/11 memorial 10th Anniversary Photography Exhibition: here is new york: Revisited” at SVA until September 17
Ten years ago, just two weeks after September 11, 2001 a storefront on Prince Street was transformed almost on-the-fly into a remarkable photography exhibition, taken and donated by amateurs and professionals alike, of the attacks of that terrifying morning on 9/11, and in those strange, horrible days that followed. You could buy prints of any […]
Jane’s Carousel Opening Next Week Under the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC
For more than 20 years, Brooklyn artist Jane Walentas has been overseeing the meticulous restoration of 48 wooden horses, a stable-full of palominos, bays, and ponies that first began saddling up back in 1922, in Youngstown, Ohio, and then on Water Street in DUMBO, until Walentas took them into rehab in 1984. Next week, on […]
Dekalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn: good food, unusual stores, lots of fun!
Add the friendly, neatly-designed, packed-with-tasty-treats Dekalb Market to your list of fun things to do in Brooklyn. Launched this summer on a vacant lot near the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn (and, thus, near many subway lines), the Dekalb Market is different from all of the other excellent markets that have been cropping up these […]
The High Line Rink: Uniqlo New York Sponsors Roller Skating Under One of NYC Best Parks!
Roller skating plus tacos trucks plus beer plus the High Line?! Sign us up! A few weeks ago the excellent Friends of the High Line teamed up with the Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo and plopped down the expansive High Line Roller Rink at the northern end of what has become one New York City's great […]
Downtown Culture Pass and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Two Smart Ways to Explore the Tip of the Island
There's always a million great things to do in this city, with new events, exhibitions, stores, restaurants, pop-ups, shows, parks, and recreations vying for your attention (and paycheck) all day, every day. And that's fantastic, of course — it's one of the reasons why we love living here — but it does mean that under-hyped […]
BMW Guggenheim Lab NYC An Urban Environment Experiment
It's difficult to explain exactly what the BMW Guggenheim Lab is all about in a sentence or two — which is why they've posted a three-minute video on the BMW Guggenheim Lab website under the question "What is the Lab?" — but we can tell you this: we've stopped by a few times already to […]
“Talk to Me” at MoMA New York: Design and Communication
First, a caveat about the small but lively exhibition "Talk to Me: Design and Communication between People and Objects" just opened on the third floor of the Museum of Modern Art: if you spend any time looking at design websites, blogs or tumblrs, you've probably already seen a lot this online. We're kind of obsessed […]
