The Isamu Noguchi Museum in New York
There are signs everywhere begging you not to, but at some point during your visit to the Isamu Noguchi Museum, you're going to succumb to the urge: you are going to touch at least one of the stone, metal, wood or clay sculptures that are the centerpiece of this lovely little museum. Maybe just for […]
Norman Rockwell and Lorna Simpson at the Brooklyn Museum
There's always a lot to like about the Brooklyn Museum in New York, from its recently freshened facade–a striking, wholly contemporary glass-and-steel entranceway that works beautifully with the grand old Beaux-Arts building–to its welcoming plaza complete with crowd-pleasing, "choreographed" fountain, to its manageable size, its community spirit, and its suggested admission price. In fact, the […]
Girl Scout Cookies NYC Pop-up Shops
We're as susceptible to cookie-based nostalgia as anyone else… especially, perhaps, of the Girls Scout Thin Mints/Samoa variety. Problem is, if you don't have a neighbor or co-worker hawking their wares, it's not that easy to get your annual Girl Scout cookies fix. Enter the Girl Scout Cookie Pop-up Shops, open now through May, one […]
Morrison Hotel Gallery on Bowery Presents: Roots of Punk and Hip Hop
Legendary music photographers Janette Beckman and David Corio (left and right, below) have an excellent exhibition going on now at the Morrison Hotel Gallery on Bowery, right next to the old CBGB (which is now a John Varvatos outlet), and if you were alive and in love with music in the late 1970s and 1980s, […]
Looking at Music 3.0 at the MoMA
Here's a good way to predict your appreciation of Looking at Music 3.0, the Museum of Modern Art's small but busy and loud exhibition on how (mostly hip hop and electronica) music has influenced contemporary art… Does the idea of strolling into a MoMA gallery and seeing Rakim up on a big screen laying down his […]
Panorama Challenge at the Queens Museum of Art March 11th, 2011
Full disclosure: we've somehow never been to the extremely cool-looking, much loved and lauded Panorama of the City of New York, the world's largest architectural model, a vast three-dimensional map, done entirely to scale, depicting every single building in the entire city. Yes: Every. Single. Building. From the world famous (Empire State, Chrysler, Rock Center) […]
Tara Donovan Stunners at Two Chelsea Pace Galleries in NYC
Tara Donovan has been one of our favorite contemporary artists since the early aughts, when pictures of her beautiful, crazily intricate, bio-organic-looking installations started popping up on the internet: walls made from clear drinking straws that seemed more coral than plastic; menacing hive-like hangings assembled from styrofoam cups and hot glue; bouquets of scotch tape, […]
The Best of the 2011 Art Fairs NYC, COMING THIS WEEKEND
Starting (in some cases) this Thursday, March 3, and running through the weekend, the world's leading art galleries and dealers will be taking over at least a half dozen locations in Chelsea and the Flatiron and Midtown for NYC's increasingly huge, sometimes overwhelming, always not-to-be-missed Art Fair Weekend. We love this annual celebration of both "modern" (read: 20th Century) […]
The Royal Shakespeare Company at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC: TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
We can't help but be a little too excited about this. As you've probably heard, London's world-renowned Royal Shakespeare Company is coming to New York City this summer, performing five plays–As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Julius Caesar (NOT Antony and Cleopatra, as originally scheduled), and The Winter's Tale–during an historic six-week residency […]
David Hammons at L&M Arts on the Upper East Side, FINAL WEEK
About five years ago the New York City artist David Hammons put on one of our all-time favorite gallery exhibitions, called Body Prints, at Tilton on 76th Street. He also contributed several sculptural pieces to the remarkable L.A. Object group show just upstairs. It was all powerful stuff, highly charged and urban and political, informed […]
There are signs everywhere begging you not to, but at some point during your visit to the Isamu Noguchi Museum, you're going to succumb to the urge: you are going to touch at least one of the stone, metal, wood or clay sculptures that are the centerpiece of this lovely little museum. Maybe just for […]
Norman Rockwell and Lorna Simpson at the Brooklyn Museum
There's always a lot to like about the Brooklyn Museum in New York, from its recently freshened facade–a striking, wholly contemporary glass-and-steel entranceway that works beautifully with the grand old Beaux-Arts building–to its welcoming plaza complete with crowd-pleasing, "choreographed" fountain, to its manageable size, its community spirit, and its suggested admission price. In fact, the […]
Girl Scout Cookies NYC Pop-up Shops
We're as susceptible to cookie-based nostalgia as anyone else… especially, perhaps, of the Girls Scout Thin Mints/Samoa variety. Problem is, if you don't have a neighbor or co-worker hawking their wares, it's not that easy to get your annual Girl Scout cookies fix. Enter the Girl Scout Cookie Pop-up Shops, open now through May, one […]
Morrison Hotel Gallery on Bowery Presents: Roots of Punk and Hip Hop
Legendary music photographers Janette Beckman and David Corio (left and right, below) have an excellent exhibition going on now at the Morrison Hotel Gallery on Bowery, right next to the old CBGB (which is now a John Varvatos outlet), and if you were alive and in love with music in the late 1970s and 1980s, […]
Looking at Music 3.0 at the MoMA
Here's a good way to predict your appreciation of Looking at Music 3.0, the Museum of Modern Art's small but busy and loud exhibition on how (mostly hip hop and electronica) music has influenced contemporary art… Does the idea of strolling into a MoMA gallery and seeing Rakim up on a big screen laying down his […]
Panorama Challenge at the Queens Museum of Art March 11th, 2011
Full disclosure: we've somehow never been to the extremely cool-looking, much loved and lauded Panorama of the City of New York, the world's largest architectural model, a vast three-dimensional map, done entirely to scale, depicting every single building in the entire city. Yes: Every. Single. Building. From the world famous (Empire State, Chrysler, Rock Center) […]
Tara Donovan Stunners at Two Chelsea Pace Galleries in NYC
Tara Donovan has been one of our favorite contemporary artists since the early aughts, when pictures of her beautiful, crazily intricate, bio-organic-looking installations started popping up on the internet: walls made from clear drinking straws that seemed more coral than plastic; menacing hive-like hangings assembled from styrofoam cups and hot glue; bouquets of scotch tape, […]
The Best of the 2011 Art Fairs NYC, COMING THIS WEEKEND
Starting (in some cases) this Thursday, March 3, and running through the weekend, the world's leading art galleries and dealers will be taking over at least a half dozen locations in Chelsea and the Flatiron and Midtown for NYC's increasingly huge, sometimes overwhelming, always not-to-be-missed Art Fair Weekend. We love this annual celebration of both "modern" (read: 20th Century) […]
The Royal Shakespeare Company at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC: TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
We can't help but be a little too excited about this. As you've probably heard, London's world-renowned Royal Shakespeare Company is coming to New York City this summer, performing five plays–As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Julius Caesar (NOT Antony and Cleopatra, as originally scheduled), and The Winter's Tale–during an historic six-week residency […]
David Hammons at L&M Arts on the Upper East Side, FINAL WEEK
About five years ago the New York City artist David Hammons put on one of our all-time favorite gallery exhibitions, called Body Prints, at Tilton on 76th Street. He also contributed several sculptural pieces to the remarkable L.A. Object group show just upstairs. It was all powerful stuff, highly charged and urban and political, informed […]
