Lee Friedlander Photographs from America By Car at the Whitney
Photography hall-of-famer Lee Friedlander went on a lot of road trips over the past decade and a half, jumping behind the wheel of a series of nondescript rental cars, usually joined by a couple of long-time friends, and driving all across America to see what he could see. Of course he recorded it all, […]
Fashion Night Out NYC: THIS FRIDAY, September 10
It's all a bit much, to be sure, and more than a little shallow (let's celebrate shopping!!), but still… the increasingly sprawling, lavish, and heavily-attended Fashion Night Out NYC has already become an early-fall ritual here in the big town, especially if you're in your 20s or 30s, and enjoy things like free makeovers, crudite, […]
The Legos Store NYC: New in Rockefeller Center
Earlier this summer New York City's first-ever Lego Store moved into the heart of the Midtown Manhattan tourist district, opening a heavily-branded flagship store in the old Brookstone space in Rockefeller Center. Now, of course you can buy most everything Legos-related in a hundred places all over the city, as well as everywhere online. So […]
Leon Levinstein’s New York City Photographs at the Met
After most of the big summer museum exhibitions have closed, and before the crowd-pleasers of fall start making their appearance (Edward Hopper at the Whitney! The Abstract Expressionists–Rothko, de Kooning, Pollock, etc.–at the MoMA! Picasso and Matisse at the Guggenheim!), now is the perfect time to catch up on the smaller shows that we may […]
Otto Dix at the Neue Galerie New York, Last Chance: Closes August 30!
Otto Dix was a major part of the excellent Glitter and Doom show a few years back at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his work also figured prominently in the MoMA's recent Dada exhibition. But this summer, the Neue Galerie in New York on the Upper East Side has been hosting the country's first-ever […]
A Met Fashion Exhibition: American Woman Closes After this Weekend
It’s definitely a little old-school Disneyworld, the Costume Institute’s summer-long crowd-pleaser of a fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, with its borderline cheesy lighting, background murals, and piped-in scene-setting sounds. But that in no way suggests that the clothing on display isn’t fascinating, and often eye-opening […]
Summer Streets NYC starts on Saturday, this year with dumpster pools!
If we weren’t going swimming in the deep, crystalline waters of Lake Winnipesaukee this weekend (wooooo-hooooo!) we would definitely be dipping in the NYC dumpster pools set up near Grand Central Terminal this Saturday. That’s right: last summer’s exclusive, hipster, wet-n-wild action is this summer’s populist, family fun! Of course, these dumpster pools were […]
The Imagination Playground, near the South Street Seaport
Just opened downtown, right next door to the South Street Seaport, The Imagination Playground lives up to superstar designer David Rockwell's promise to create a space for New York City kids that would "break all the normal rules." We stopped by last Saturday, and never have we seen so many little kids so happily and […]
The New Museum NYC Presents Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
We've discussed our frustration with the New Museum in Manhattan before: how we love the design of the building (and its signage), both inside and out; and its location at the eastern end of Prince Street, near so much great shopping and eating and gallery-going; and its Sky Room terrace, with those sweeping views of […]
Summer Place at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York
It's been like 400 million degrees in New York City all month, so a visit to Bonni Benrubi Gallery in NYC on 57th Street seemed like an even better idea than usual this past weekend. From now through summer's end in late September, the renowned gallery hosts a terrific group show of wonderfully evocative, […]
Photography hall-of-famer Lee Friedlander went on a lot of road trips over the past decade and a half, jumping behind the wheel of a series of nondescript rental cars, usually joined by a couple of long-time friends, and driving all across America to see what he could see. Of course he recorded it all, […]
Fashion Night Out NYC: THIS FRIDAY, September 10
It's all a bit much, to be sure, and more than a little shallow (let's celebrate shopping!!), but still… the increasingly sprawling, lavish, and heavily-attended Fashion Night Out NYC has already become an early-fall ritual here in the big town, especially if you're in your 20s or 30s, and enjoy things like free makeovers, crudite, […]
The Legos Store NYC: New in Rockefeller Center
Earlier this summer New York City's first-ever Lego Store moved into the heart of the Midtown Manhattan tourist district, opening a heavily-branded flagship store in the old Brookstone space in Rockefeller Center. Now, of course you can buy most everything Legos-related in a hundred places all over the city, as well as everywhere online. So […]
Leon Levinstein’s New York City Photographs at the Met
After most of the big summer museum exhibitions have closed, and before the crowd-pleasers of fall start making their appearance (Edward Hopper at the Whitney! The Abstract Expressionists–Rothko, de Kooning, Pollock, etc.–at the MoMA! Picasso and Matisse at the Guggenheim!), now is the perfect time to catch up on the smaller shows that we may […]
Otto Dix at the Neue Galerie New York, Last Chance: Closes August 30!
Otto Dix was a major part of the excellent Glitter and Doom show a few years back at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his work also figured prominently in the MoMA's recent Dada exhibition. But this summer, the Neue Galerie in New York on the Upper East Side has been hosting the country's first-ever […]
A Met Fashion Exhibition: American Woman Closes After this Weekend
It’s definitely a little old-school Disneyworld, the Costume Institute’s summer-long crowd-pleaser of a fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, with its borderline cheesy lighting, background murals, and piped-in scene-setting sounds. But that in no way suggests that the clothing on display isn’t fascinating, and often eye-opening […]
Summer Streets NYC starts on Saturday, this year with dumpster pools!
If we weren’t going swimming in the deep, crystalline waters of Lake Winnipesaukee this weekend (wooooo-hooooo!) we would definitely be dipping in the NYC dumpster pools set up near Grand Central Terminal this Saturday. That’s right: last summer’s exclusive, hipster, wet-n-wild action is this summer’s populist, family fun! Of course, these dumpster pools were […]
The Imagination Playground, near the South Street Seaport
Just opened downtown, right next door to the South Street Seaport, The Imagination Playground lives up to superstar designer David Rockwell's promise to create a space for New York City kids that would "break all the normal rules." We stopped by last Saturday, and never have we seen so many little kids so happily and […]
The New Museum NYC Presents Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
We've discussed our frustration with the New Museum in Manhattan before: how we love the design of the building (and its signage), both inside and out; and its location at the eastern end of Prince Street, near so much great shopping and eating and gallery-going; and its Sky Room terrace, with those sweeping views of […]
Summer Place at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York
It's been like 400 million degrees in New York City all month, so a visit to Bonni Benrubi Gallery in NYC on 57th Street seemed like an even better idea than usual this past weekend. From now through summer's end in late September, the renowned gallery hosts a terrific group show of wonderfully evocative, […]
