Bowlmor Lanes NYC & Other Mega-Alleys
Indoor winter activities in New York City during which you can laugh and get loud AND eat and drink AND are equally fun and appropriate for all ages? Well, there's bowling and, um… bowling in NYC! Seriously, if you're looking for something different to do with a crowd after work, or a place to take […]

Edward Hopper and His Times at the Whitney Museum
The Whitney digs into its vast Edward Hopper art holdings–and adds a few fresh pieces on loan–for this minor-feeling exhibition. Hopper fanatics won't want to miss it, but with several other great museum shows currently in town, is it worth the trip for the casual appreciator?

Kenny Scharf Artist Mural on the Houston Street Wall
It’s quickly become one of our favorite public art spaces: “the Wall” on Houston Street (formerly the “Deitch Wall”, now curated by the Hole Gallery), right around the corner from Bowery, and, in case you’re hungry, across the street from Pulino’s Bar & Pizzeria. In the past year or so the space, all 17′ x 50′ of […]

Three Cool Holiday Shopping Pop Ups
  Upper West Side: Annie's Blue Ribbon General Store  Ann Lopatin, aka Annie Lo, has a good eye and an even better sense of fun, both of which are everywhere in evidence in this spacious Upper West Side version of her beloved Brooklyn "Urban General Store". In true holiday shopping pop up style, the space […]

Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea featuring Anselm Kiefer and Robert Rauschenberg
At this point it should come as no surprise that rockstar art dealer Larry Gagosian can put on multiple large-scale exhibitions by brand-name artists, any one of which would be more than welcome in any museum in the world. But in case you still need convincing, we heartily recommend heading over to Chelsea some time between […]

Levi’s Photo Workshop NYC, in Soho
The Levi's Photo Workshop could be the least-hyped coolest thing going on in the New York City right now. Located on Wooster Street in the–instant nostalgia alert!–former Deitch gallery space, the Levi's Photo Workshop has so much photography-related, totally-free goodness that it's almost a bit overwhelming. We went once just to take it all in, and […]

Canstruction NYC 2010 at the World Financial Center
  In what has become a great pre-Thanksgiving tradition in our family, we roamed the soaring, sun-drenched Winter Palace at the World Financial Center last Thursday afternoon to take in Canstruction 2010, that annual celebration of cool design, tricky engineering, and donating a whole lot of time, talent and food to New Yorkers who need it […]

John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Met
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, running now through January at the Met, is packed with the kind of visually clever, relentlessly entertaining works that have earned him recognition as one of the great pioneers of the Conceptual Art movement. In and of itself, this is an extremely engaging exhibition, filled with energy and spectacle and humor. But what […]

The International Center for Photography in NYC presents/..The Mexican Suitcase and Cuba in Revolution
It's kind of a small, sterile-feeling space–think institutional gallery rather than museum–but New York City's International Center of Photography almost always puts on a good show. And the two exhibitions running now are particularly noteworthy, both for photojournalists (and its fans, like us) as well as anyone easily engaged by 20th-century history (um…. also like […]

Abstract Expressionist New York at the MoMA
 The MoMA digs deep (and wide) into their extraordinary permanent collection for the blockbuster show of the season, Abstract Expressionist New York, a celebration of the creative explosion that burst through this town in the 1940s and '50s. Taking up the Museum of Modern Art's entire fourth floor–the first time an exhibition has done so […]