Georgia O’Keeffe at the Whitney Museum
Novel Look at Georgia O’Keeffe Paintings at the Whitney Exhibit Before seeing Georgia O’Keeffe at the Whitney Museum, we sort of figured that we knew just about everything there was to know about Georgia O’Keeffe. Paintings of cow skulls in the desert? Check. Pastelish, sexually-suggestive flowers? Yup. Erotic photographs taken of her by longtime […]
Improv Everywhere
Improv Everywhere’s Motto “We Cause Scenes” “We cause scenes”, is the motto of Charlie Todd’s Improv Everywhere, and for almost ten years now this merry band of urban pranksters have been doing exactly that, pulling off some of the cleverest, most smile-provoking, most widely-publicized stunts this city has ever known. The No Pants! Subway […]
Jan Vermeer’s The Milkmaid Met Exhibit
Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You’ve seen this Dutch baroque artist’s masterpiece before, of course, reproduced in books and posters and slideshows online, probably hundreds of times over the course of your life. For those not living right nearby in Upper East Side Manhattan real estate, is it really […]
Bike New York in the Fall: the best rides and resources
Like to bike New York in the Fall? Despite the City’s reputation as a place filled with crazy cabbies and pushy pedestrians, this is actually a terrific town for bikers, especially in these few months of crisp, but not too cold, days and evenings. There are lots of great biking options–long rides and short, […]
Gizmodo Gallery 2009
The Gizmodo Gallery 2009 is here! From right now through Sunday September 27, the gadget geeks at gizmodo.com have invaded the raw, sprawling space Groupe in Nolita for their now-annual celebration of the Wonderful World of Tech, both commercial and hacked, classic (the first-ever VCR! the first Walkman, on loan from Sony’s Tokyo archives!) […]
Best Comedy Clubs in NYC
Four of the Best New York Comedy Clubs What are the best comedy clubs in NYC? On any given night, of course, that answer can change, depending on who’s going up on stage. But over the years we’ve found that the four New York comedy clubs listed below, each offering a different sort of NYC […]
Governors Island Events
Taking the Governor’s Island Ferry Still A Great Day Trip Governors Island may not be quite the undiscovered New York City treasure that it was a few years ago: long, glowing features about Governor’s Island in all the major papers and magazines and websites tend to blow the lid off things a bit. But […]
Fall for Dance Festival 2009: every seat, only $10! Tickets on sale September 13!
Fall for Dance 2009 tickets–every seat, only $10!–go on sale this Sunday, September 13, at 11:00 a.m., so you still have a chance to take advantage of one of New York City’s great cultural values. How great a value is the Fall for Dance Festival? For ten fabulous days every year, the world-renowned City […]
Ron Arad exhibition at the MoMA: No Discipline
Ron Arad MoMA Exhibition The Museum of Modern Art Welcomes Ron Arad Ron Arad’s Museum of Modern Art exhibition, the terrific No Discipline, demonstrates how an artist’s work and its milieu can complement each other perfectly. Here Arad’s rambunctious, often hugely influential designs and objects–his Restless Chairs and Readymades, his Wavys and Infinities, his Voids […]
Deitch Soho art galleries: Black Acid Co-op and Dash Snow Memorial
Deitch Gallery NYC’s Explosive Exhibits Now on Show A visit to the two Deitch Soho art galleries, located around the corner from each other on Grand and Wooster Street, is always an excellent idea, either as a destination to a Soho art gallery in itself, or as a way to break up an afternoon […]
Novel Look at Georgia O’Keeffe Paintings at the Whitney Exhibit Before seeing Georgia O’Keeffe at the Whitney Museum, we sort of figured that we knew just about everything there was to know about Georgia O’Keeffe. Paintings of cow skulls in the desert? Check. Pastelish, sexually-suggestive flowers? Yup. Erotic photographs taken of her by longtime […]
Improv Everywhere
Improv Everywhere’s Motto “We Cause Scenes” “We cause scenes”, is the motto of Charlie Todd’s Improv Everywhere, and for almost ten years now this merry band of urban pranksters have been doing exactly that, pulling off some of the cleverest, most smile-provoking, most widely-publicized stunts this city has ever known. The No Pants! Subway […]
Jan Vermeer’s The Milkmaid Met Exhibit
Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You’ve seen this Dutch baroque artist’s masterpiece before, of course, reproduced in books and posters and slideshows online, probably hundreds of times over the course of your life. For those not living right nearby in Upper East Side Manhattan real estate, is it really […]
Bike New York in the Fall: the best rides and resources
Like to bike New York in the Fall? Despite the City’s reputation as a place filled with crazy cabbies and pushy pedestrians, this is actually a terrific town for bikers, especially in these few months of crisp, but not too cold, days and evenings. There are lots of great biking options–long rides and short, […]
Gizmodo Gallery 2009
The Gizmodo Gallery 2009 is here! From right now through Sunday September 27, the gadget geeks at gizmodo.com have invaded the raw, sprawling space Groupe in Nolita for their now-annual celebration of the Wonderful World of Tech, both commercial and hacked, classic (the first-ever VCR! the first Walkman, on loan from Sony’s Tokyo archives!) […]
Best Comedy Clubs in NYC
Four of the Best New York Comedy Clubs What are the best comedy clubs in NYC? On any given night, of course, that answer can change, depending on who’s going up on stage. But over the years we’ve found that the four New York comedy clubs listed below, each offering a different sort of NYC […]
Governors Island Events
Taking the Governor’s Island Ferry Still A Great Day Trip Governors Island may not be quite the undiscovered New York City treasure that it was a few years ago: long, glowing features about Governor’s Island in all the major papers and magazines and websites tend to blow the lid off things a bit. But […]
Fall for Dance Festival 2009: every seat, only $10! Tickets on sale September 13!
Fall for Dance 2009 tickets–every seat, only $10!–go on sale this Sunday, September 13, at 11:00 a.m., so you still have a chance to take advantage of one of New York City’s great cultural values. How great a value is the Fall for Dance Festival? For ten fabulous days every year, the world-renowned City […]
Ron Arad exhibition at the MoMA: No Discipline
Ron Arad MoMA Exhibition The Museum of Modern Art Welcomes Ron Arad Ron Arad’s Museum of Modern Art exhibition, the terrific No Discipline, demonstrates how an artist’s work and its milieu can complement each other perfectly. Here Arad’s rambunctious, often hugely influential designs and objects–his Restless Chairs and Readymades, his Wavys and Infinities, his Voids […]
Deitch Soho art galleries: Black Acid Co-op and Dash Snow Memorial
Deitch Gallery NYC’s Explosive Exhibits Now on Show A visit to the two Deitch Soho art galleries, located around the corner from each other on Grand and Wooster Street, is always an excellent idea, either as a destination to a Soho art gallery in itself, or as a way to break up an afternoon […]
