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 […]
L.A.’s Family Bookstore Hosts Thirty Days NY
We've never been, but everything we've ever heard about Family bookstore in West Hollywood, we love: the cool parties and events; the commitment to local artists, designers, writers and musicians; the excellent selection of books and related products, whether obscure or known, dyi or big press, graphic or wordy. Now Family brings its indie […]
Rockefeller Park NYC
There are your local neighborhood playgrounds and parks big and small, of course, the places you go to every day/weekend because they're fine and familiar and, you know… they're right there. But in a town as great and big and generous as New York City, there are also destination parks and playgrounds, special spots […]
Brucennial 2010: Miseducation in Soho New York
Sure, you’ve put in an appearance at the Biennial, the Whitney Museum’s every-other-year exhibition of the best (as defined by the curators) in contemporary American art. And it’s a good show this year, we thought: lean, engaging, with a fairly high percentage of interesting pieces. But if you’re in the mood for something a bit […]
Keith Haring: 20th Anniversary at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery CLOSES SATURDAY APRIL 3
There was no more iconic New York City artist in the 1980s than Keith Haring, whose bold, rapidly-created chalk drawings and street paintings could be seen everywhere, all over town… and then, little by little, in art galleries… and then, eventually, thanks to Keith Haring's belief that art should be available to everyone, on […]
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present at the MoMA
For more than four decades now, the legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic has submitted her body–and her psyche–to countless indignities, and numbing feats of endurance, and out-and-out, nearly torturous levels of physical pain. But perhaps the most astonishing performance of her path-breaking career is going on right now in midtown Manhattan, at the Museum […]
Ride the Zone’s Incredible Real Ryder Workout
We here at the Glenwood Neighborhood Pleasures blog can't check out everything going on in this amazing city (though we do try), so sometimes we call upon the extended Team Glenwood to clue us in to everything new and exciting. Take this report from the field, for example, by Glenwood Leasing Agent Beth, who […]
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 […]
L.A.’s Family Bookstore Hosts Thirty Days NY
We've never been, but everything we've ever heard about Family bookstore in West Hollywood, we love: the cool parties and events; the commitment to local artists, designers, writers and musicians; the excellent selection of books and related products, whether obscure or known, dyi or big press, graphic or wordy. Now Family brings its indie […]
Rockefeller Park NYC
There are your local neighborhood playgrounds and parks big and small, of course, the places you go to every day/weekend because they're fine and familiar and, you know… they're right there. But in a town as great and big and generous as New York City, there are also destination parks and playgrounds, special spots […]
Brucennial 2010: Miseducation in Soho New York
Sure, you’ve put in an appearance at the Biennial, the Whitney Museum’s every-other-year exhibition of the best (as defined by the curators) in contemporary American art. And it’s a good show this year, we thought: lean, engaging, with a fairly high percentage of interesting pieces. But if you’re in the mood for something a bit […]
Keith Haring: 20th Anniversary at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery CLOSES SATURDAY APRIL 3
There was no more iconic New York City artist in the 1980s than Keith Haring, whose bold, rapidly-created chalk drawings and street paintings could be seen everywhere, all over town… and then, little by little, in art galleries… and then, eventually, thanks to Keith Haring's belief that art should be available to everyone, on […]
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present at the MoMA
For more than four decades now, the legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic has submitted her body–and her psyche–to countless indignities, and numbing feats of endurance, and out-and-out, nearly torturous levels of physical pain. But perhaps the most astonishing performance of her path-breaking career is going on right now in midtown Manhattan, at the Museum […]
Ride the Zone’s Incredible Real Ryder Workout
We here at the Glenwood Neighborhood Pleasures blog can't check out everything going on in this amazing city (though we do try), so sometimes we call upon the extended Team Glenwood to clue us in to everything new and exciting. Take this report from the field, for example, by Glenwood Leasing Agent Beth, who […]

