Picasso: Themes and Variations at the MoMA
It's hard to believe that anything involving Picasso that could actually be under-hyped in this town, but the current Picasso: Themes and Variations exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, which we thoroughly enjoyed for lots of different reasons, seems to have slipped under the radar a bit. Maybe it's just the distraction of […]
Lincoln Center NYC: The Rooftop Illumination Lawn
We admit it: we were skeptical about the Lincoln Center NYC's new "Illumination Lawn." Not that we have any problem with contemporary tweaks and upgrades of even the most iconic of New York City landmarks. We're fans of Lincoln Center's new "choreographed" central fountain, for example, and, as has been observed many times before, […]
Antony Gormley: Event Horizon in Madison Square Park
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon, on display now through the middle of August in and around the excellent Madison Square Park, is one of our favorite public art projects of the last few years. Gormley’s concept here is simple: take 31 life-size body-form statues of his (naked) self, cast in iron and fiberglass, and place […]
Deluxx Fluxx NYC: Faile and Bast
Street art is definitely having a NYC moment. First there was Shepard Fairey's takeover of downtown Manhattan, from his massive Houston Street mural and several other major "rogue" pieces, to his packing-them-in show at Deitch, the final exhibition ever at that pioneering gallery before its namesake owner flees the city for the west coast, […]
The Limelight Marketplace NYC
The jokes are easy, the irony almost too obvious to even mention: the Limelight, one of New York City’s most iconic, most deliriously decadent, most flat-out fun nightclubs of the 1980s and into the ’90s, is now, basically, a mall. Where once the city’s most A-list-iest club kids danced and partied past dawn, suburban […]
The Alliance for Downtown New York & Glenwood Team up for Spring Community Planting Day
Last weekend the Glenwood Management team was thrilled to co-sponsor the Alliance For Downtown New York's Third Annual Spring Community Planting Day… and even more thrilled by the huge turnout of lower Manhattan residents who spent hours getting their hands dirty to help spruce up the no-longer-forlorn Wall Street Park. The weather […]
Starn Twins Installation: “Big Bambu” at the Met
Checking out the new sculptures/installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s roof garden has become one of New York City’s great springtime (and summer-long) rituals. With its spectacular views of Central Park, readily available snacks and beverages (including beer, wine and cocktails), and an all-star roster of contemporary artists transforming the space over the […]
Hester Street Fair NYC
The Hester Street Fair NYC launched last Saturday with a stellar line-up of food and merchandise vendors, a few opening day jitters, and tons (and tons!) of people enjoying the Lower East Side sunshine. The model here is the Brooklyn Flea, the outer borough’s hugely successful weekly gathering of hip handicrafts, unusual antiques, and […]
Shepard Fairey’s new mural on Houston Street
Shepard Fairey spent years making a name for himself in street art culture with his ubiquitous "Obey" posters and stickers–he's racked up well over a million hits worldwide; even if you don't know what we're talking about, you'd definitely recognize them–but in 2008 he became famous to the rest of the world for his […]
The Modern Century: Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographs at the MoMA
For so many reasons, on so many levels, the huge new Henri Cartier-Bresson photography show at the Museum of Modern Art is a stunner. In more than 300 photographs spanning his entire 50+-year career, from the early 1930s into the 1980s, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century delivers one indelible, sometimes challenging, often iconic, always […]
It's hard to believe that anything involving Picasso that could actually be under-hyped in this town, but the current Picasso: Themes and Variations exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, which we thoroughly enjoyed for lots of different reasons, seems to have slipped under the radar a bit. Maybe it's just the distraction of […]
Lincoln Center NYC: The Rooftop Illumination Lawn
We admit it: we were skeptical about the Lincoln Center NYC's new "Illumination Lawn." Not that we have any problem with contemporary tweaks and upgrades of even the most iconic of New York City landmarks. We're fans of Lincoln Center's new "choreographed" central fountain, for example, and, as has been observed many times before, […]
Antony Gormley: Event Horizon in Madison Square Park
Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon, on display now through the middle of August in and around the excellent Madison Square Park, is one of our favorite public art projects of the last few years. Gormley’s concept here is simple: take 31 life-size body-form statues of his (naked) self, cast in iron and fiberglass, and place […]
Deluxx Fluxx NYC: Faile and Bast
Street art is definitely having a NYC moment. First there was Shepard Fairey's takeover of downtown Manhattan, from his massive Houston Street mural and several other major "rogue" pieces, to his packing-them-in show at Deitch, the final exhibition ever at that pioneering gallery before its namesake owner flees the city for the west coast, […]
The Limelight Marketplace NYC
The jokes are easy, the irony almost too obvious to even mention: the Limelight, one of New York City’s most iconic, most deliriously decadent, most flat-out fun nightclubs of the 1980s and into the ’90s, is now, basically, a mall. Where once the city’s most A-list-iest club kids danced and partied past dawn, suburban […]
The Alliance for Downtown New York & Glenwood Team up for Spring Community Planting Day
Last weekend the Glenwood Management team was thrilled to co-sponsor the Alliance For Downtown New York's Third Annual Spring Community Planting Day… and even more thrilled by the huge turnout of lower Manhattan residents who spent hours getting their hands dirty to help spruce up the no-longer-forlorn Wall Street Park. The weather […]
Starn Twins Installation: “Big Bambu” at the Met
Checking out the new sculptures/installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s roof garden has become one of New York City’s great springtime (and summer-long) rituals. With its spectacular views of Central Park, readily available snacks and beverages (including beer, wine and cocktails), and an all-star roster of contemporary artists transforming the space over the […]
Hester Street Fair NYC
The Hester Street Fair NYC launched last Saturday with a stellar line-up of food and merchandise vendors, a few opening day jitters, and tons (and tons!) of people enjoying the Lower East Side sunshine. The model here is the Brooklyn Flea, the outer borough’s hugely successful weekly gathering of hip handicrafts, unusual antiques, and […]
Shepard Fairey’s new mural on Houston Street
Shepard Fairey spent years making a name for himself in street art culture with his ubiquitous "Obey" posters and stickers–he's racked up well over a million hits worldwide; even if you don't know what we're talking about, you'd definitely recognize them–but in 2008 he became famous to the rest of the world for his […]
The Modern Century: Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographs at the MoMA
For so many reasons, on so many levels, the huge new Henri Cartier-Bresson photography show at the Museum of Modern Art is a stunner. In more than 300 photographs spanning his entire 50+-year career, from the early 1930s into the 1980s, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century delivers one indelible, sometimes challenging, often iconic, always […]
