Henri Matisse: Radical Reinvention, 1913 – 1917, at the MoMA
What a wonderful treat, the just-opened Henri Matisse art show at the Museum of Modern Art. Sprawled out luxuriously in the larger of the MoMA's sixth-floor galleries, this full-scale exhibition includes some 120 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints, the bulk of which have been culled from Matisse's most difficult creative period, a four-year stint from […]
Fun FREE Live Music in NYC Alert: Two Epic Shows This Weekend
Ok, yes, there is great free music in NYC all summer long, from Rockefeller Park to Governors Island, Central Park to Castle Clinton, the Williamsburg Waterfront to the South Street Seaport, Wingate Field to Pier 54, Coney Island to Prospect Park to Madison Square Park to the World Financial Center to the East River Ampitheater […]
MoMA PS1 Brings Us Warm Up, Solid Objectives Pole Dance & Greater New York
It's that time of year again, when hundreds (thousands?) of club kids and euro-tourists and hipsters and frat boys and young families and scenesters turn Long Island City's MoMA PS1 into an afternoon-into-nighttime sun-drenched dance party, every Saturday, from now until Labor Day weekend. It's called Warm Up, it takes place in the sprawling PS1 […]
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade at the Brooklyn Museum
The challenge is formidable: how do you stage an Andy Warhol art exhibition these days that will get people excited? After all, Warhol is not only the most overly-famous, most commonly reproduced artist of the late 20th century, but his work itself is all reproductions (of reproductions), so it's not as if seeing the original […]
Street Pianos NYC: Luke Jerram’s Play Me, I’m Yours
No surprise, after only one afternoon and six sightings, we already love Luke Jerram's Street Pianos NYC, a five-borough, interactive public art project, also known as Play Me I'm Yours. The concept here is simple and totally great: put 60 pianos, some elaborately painted, others not, in public places all around New York City, and […]
Summer Fun Alert! Coney Island Mermaid Parade: Saturday, June 19
Over the years the Coney Island Mermaid Parade has become one of our favorite New York City street parties. Launched in 1983 by the not-for-profit arts organization Coney Island USA–partly as an homage to the long-defunct Coney Island Mardi Gras, which was a HUGE deal in the first half of the 20th century; partly […]
Cooper Hewitt Museum’s National Design Triennial 2010
Since its inception in 2000, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s National Design Triennial has attempted to do what, these days, is probably impossible: to find and assemble “the most innovative designs at the center of contemporary culture” from the previous three years. Impossible because the task is too huge, especially since the National Design Triennial rightly encompasses […]
Midoma Salon Moves to Emerald Green Territory
File under: One neighborhood’s loss is another one’s gain. When the much-loved hair salon/high-end boutique/art gallery Midoma Salon needed to up its Upper East Side roots this winter, its relocation to the Fashion District–more specifically, to Eighth Avenue between 38th and 37th Streets–may have surprised those who haven’t been paying attention to that neighborhood’s recent […]
Key to the City: A New Creative Time Project by Paul Ramirez Jonas
Those New York City public-art wizards at Creative Time have done it again. Ever since the early 1970s, this excellent art collective has been commissioning, curating and creating innovative, interactive projects that use our beautiful city not only as an ideal backdrop, but also as an integral part of the pieces. Creative Time's newest and […]
Luna Park in Coney Island
It took a couple of weeks of round the-clock scrambling by construction crews, but as promised by everyone from the Mayor of down, the famously-named Luna Park in Coney Island did in fact open its gates to the public the past Memorial Day weekend. True, several of the "big" rides hadn't yet been officially cleared–and […]
What a wonderful treat, the just-opened Henri Matisse art show at the Museum of Modern Art. Sprawled out luxuriously in the larger of the MoMA's sixth-floor galleries, this full-scale exhibition includes some 120 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints, the bulk of which have been culled from Matisse's most difficult creative period, a four-year stint from […]
Fun FREE Live Music in NYC Alert: Two Epic Shows This Weekend
Ok, yes, there is great free music in NYC all summer long, from Rockefeller Park to Governors Island, Central Park to Castle Clinton, the Williamsburg Waterfront to the South Street Seaport, Wingate Field to Pier 54, Coney Island to Prospect Park to Madison Square Park to the World Financial Center to the East River Ampitheater […]
MoMA PS1 Brings Us Warm Up, Solid Objectives Pole Dance & Greater New York
It's that time of year again, when hundreds (thousands?) of club kids and euro-tourists and hipsters and frat boys and young families and scenesters turn Long Island City's MoMA PS1 into an afternoon-into-nighttime sun-drenched dance party, every Saturday, from now until Labor Day weekend. It's called Warm Up, it takes place in the sprawling PS1 […]
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade at the Brooklyn Museum
The challenge is formidable: how do you stage an Andy Warhol art exhibition these days that will get people excited? After all, Warhol is not only the most overly-famous, most commonly reproduced artist of the late 20th century, but his work itself is all reproductions (of reproductions), so it's not as if seeing the original […]
Street Pianos NYC: Luke Jerram’s Play Me, I’m Yours
No surprise, after only one afternoon and six sightings, we already love Luke Jerram's Street Pianos NYC, a five-borough, interactive public art project, also known as Play Me I'm Yours. The concept here is simple and totally great: put 60 pianos, some elaborately painted, others not, in public places all around New York City, and […]
Summer Fun Alert! Coney Island Mermaid Parade: Saturday, June 19
Over the years the Coney Island Mermaid Parade has become one of our favorite New York City street parties. Launched in 1983 by the not-for-profit arts organization Coney Island USA–partly as an homage to the long-defunct Coney Island Mardi Gras, which was a HUGE deal in the first half of the 20th century; partly […]
Cooper Hewitt Museum’s National Design Triennial 2010
Since its inception in 2000, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s National Design Triennial has attempted to do what, these days, is probably impossible: to find and assemble “the most innovative designs at the center of contemporary culture” from the previous three years. Impossible because the task is too huge, especially since the National Design Triennial rightly encompasses […]
Midoma Salon Moves to Emerald Green Territory
File under: One neighborhood’s loss is another one’s gain. When the much-loved hair salon/high-end boutique/art gallery Midoma Salon needed to up its Upper East Side roots this winter, its relocation to the Fashion District–more specifically, to Eighth Avenue between 38th and 37th Streets–may have surprised those who haven’t been paying attention to that neighborhood’s recent […]
Key to the City: A New Creative Time Project by Paul Ramirez Jonas
Those New York City public-art wizards at Creative Time have done it again. Ever since the early 1970s, this excellent art collective has been commissioning, curating and creating innovative, interactive projects that use our beautiful city not only as an ideal backdrop, but also as an integral part of the pieces. Creative Time's newest and […]
Luna Park in Coney Island
It took a couple of weeks of round the-clock scrambling by construction crews, but as promised by everyone from the Mayor of down, the famously-named Luna Park in Coney Island did in fact open its gates to the public the past Memorial Day weekend. True, several of the "big" rides hadn't yet been officially cleared–and […]
