Ryoji Ikeda: The Transfinite at the Park Avenue Armory
It's one of the great spaces in town, the cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall at the historic Park Avenue Armory, but it's also been a bit of challenge for the Arts at the Armory curators to find the right artist, with the right idea, to take full advantage of the massive room. Fortunately, Ryoji Ikeda's […]
ICFF in New York 2011: Wrapping up Design Week
Last weekend the 24th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York took over the Jacobs Javits Center… and even THAT massive space couldn't contain what has become one of the world's premiere celebrations of the most innovative industrial designers and their beautiful, amazing, ridiculous, brilliant, jaw-dropping creations. And so the ICFF has spawned NYC […]
Hester Street Fair in NYC 2011
The lively, fun and, especially, the TASTY (if also: the crowded and prone-to-sell-out-by-3:00) Hester Street Fair in NYC is opened for its second season last Saturday, and was greeted with enormous enthusiasm by throngs of the hungry from all over town. Yes, the fair edition, still does have plenty of unique and talented craftspeople and […]
Jaume Plensa: Echo (aka “the Big Head”) in Madison Square Park
The curators at Madison Square Park have done it again. Assembled and unveiled just last week, the park's latest summer-long art installation is called Echo, it's by the great Jaume Plensa, and it is a brilliant and beautiful addition that will keep watch over the park's main lawn between now and mid August. Jaume Plensa […]
The John Jay Playground in NYC: Newly Designed and Renovated on the Upper East Side
It's always good news when any New York City playground, in any neighborhood, gets lots of new equipment, and a new surface, and new benches and landscaping. But for residents of the Upper East Side and, especially, for residents of Glenwood's elegant Pavilion, on 77th and York, it is GREAT news that the city just […]
NYC Festival of Ideas for the New City: Fun, Interesting, Unique Event May 4 – 8
This sounds like it's going to be great. The NYC Festival of Ideas for the New City, anchored by the New Museum on Bowery but involving dozens of organizations large and small and sprawling throughout the Village, Soho, the Lower East Side, and Chinatown, is just the sort of ambitious, innovative, creative, and, most of […]
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, at the Met
Richard Serra Drawing, an expansive, 40-year survey of the great sculptor's art works on paper, proves, if nothing else, that this is an artist who can't do anything that doesn't feel like it weighs a ton. Now running at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the terrific exhibition features approximately 50 of Serra's drawings–mostly black, mostly […]
Malevich and the American Legacy at Gagosian New York
Pretty much only Larry Gagosian could create a gallery exhibition that's as historic and deep and exhilarating as Malevich and the American Legacy, on display now at his Madison Avenue triplex in New York, and only until April 30. The centerpiece of the show are six apparently rare and definitely extraordinary paintings by the early-20th-century […]
The Brooklyn Flea 2011
The great Brooklyn Flea is now in full effect, all-weekend-every-weekend, Saturdays in Fort Greene, Sundays in Williamsburg, rain or shine, now through mid-November. And judging by our first two visits this season, on the Brooklyn Flea Market's first two weekends, even as it gets bigger, and more popular, it only gets better.
Tekserve Recycling in NYC: Terrific FREE Event, THIS SATURDAY, April 16
Do you have a drawer at home filled with old cell phones and iPods, some of which you haven't used (or haven't worked) in years? How about those tangles of chargers and cables that plug into who-knows-what anymore? And then there are those sad victims of your home entertainment upgrades, the outdated iMacs, monitors, and […]
It's one of the great spaces in town, the cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall at the historic Park Avenue Armory, but it's also been a bit of challenge for the Arts at the Armory curators to find the right artist, with the right idea, to take full advantage of the massive room. Fortunately, Ryoji Ikeda's […]
ICFF in New York 2011: Wrapping up Design Week
Last weekend the 24th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York took over the Jacobs Javits Center… and even THAT massive space couldn't contain what has become one of the world's premiere celebrations of the most innovative industrial designers and their beautiful, amazing, ridiculous, brilliant, jaw-dropping creations. And so the ICFF has spawned NYC […]
Hester Street Fair in NYC 2011
The lively, fun and, especially, the TASTY (if also: the crowded and prone-to-sell-out-by-3:00) Hester Street Fair in NYC is opened for its second season last Saturday, and was greeted with enormous enthusiasm by throngs of the hungry from all over town. Yes, the fair edition, still does have plenty of unique and talented craftspeople and […]
Jaume Plensa: Echo (aka “the Big Head”) in Madison Square Park
The curators at Madison Square Park have done it again. Assembled and unveiled just last week, the park's latest summer-long art installation is called Echo, it's by the great Jaume Plensa, and it is a brilliant and beautiful addition that will keep watch over the park's main lawn between now and mid August. Jaume Plensa […]
The John Jay Playground in NYC: Newly Designed and Renovated on the Upper East Side
It's always good news when any New York City playground, in any neighborhood, gets lots of new equipment, and a new surface, and new benches and landscaping. But for residents of the Upper East Side and, especially, for residents of Glenwood's elegant Pavilion, on 77th and York, it is GREAT news that the city just […]
NYC Festival of Ideas for the New City: Fun, Interesting, Unique Event May 4 – 8
This sounds like it's going to be great. The NYC Festival of Ideas for the New City, anchored by the New Museum on Bowery but involving dozens of organizations large and small and sprawling throughout the Village, Soho, the Lower East Side, and Chinatown, is just the sort of ambitious, innovative, creative, and, most of […]
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, at the Met
Richard Serra Drawing, an expansive, 40-year survey of the great sculptor's art works on paper, proves, if nothing else, that this is an artist who can't do anything that doesn't feel like it weighs a ton. Now running at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the terrific exhibition features approximately 50 of Serra's drawings–mostly black, mostly […]
Malevich and the American Legacy at Gagosian New York
Pretty much only Larry Gagosian could create a gallery exhibition that's as historic and deep and exhilarating as Malevich and the American Legacy, on display now at his Madison Avenue triplex in New York, and only until April 30. The centerpiece of the show are six apparently rare and definitely extraordinary paintings by the early-20th-century […]
The Brooklyn Flea 2011
The great Brooklyn Flea is now in full effect, all-weekend-every-weekend, Saturdays in Fort Greene, Sundays in Williamsburg, rain or shine, now through mid-November. And judging by our first two visits this season, on the Brooklyn Flea Market's first two weekends, even as it gets bigger, and more popular, it only gets better.
Tekserve Recycling in NYC: Terrific FREE Event, THIS SATURDAY, April 16
Do you have a drawer at home filled with old cell phones and iPods, some of which you haven't used (or haven't worked) in years? How about those tangles of chargers and cables that plug into who-knows-what anymore? And then there are those sad victims of your home entertainment upgrades, the outdated iMacs, monitors, and […]
