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 […]

James Ensor at the MoMA
Avant Garde Art by Belgian Artist James Ensor     See a photograph of artist James Ensor, and you wish you could meet the man. Born in 1860, this subversive prince of Belgian avant-garde art made his most enduring mark in the latter part of that century, ripping through convention and indulging in his lifelong […]

PS1 MoMA for Summer Fun
PS1 MoMA has several great summer exhibits Okay, so the winner of PS1's Young Architect's Contest this year–the annual competition in which up-and-coming architecture firms vie to design the structure that will dominate MoMA's huge courtyard all summer long decided to go with hair huts. Maybe MOS, who created this "urban shelter", named Afterparty, is […]

The Brooklyn Flea in DUMBO
You don’t really need a special excuse the head on over to DUMBO for the afternoon. The neighborhood dubbed Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass is always worth a trip with its: quiet cobblestone streets; its designy furniture shops and boutiques; its unconventional art galleries (The Museum of Modern Arthur–created and curated by musician / […]

Francis Bacon Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Centenary Retrospective
I In some ways this is a risky exhibition for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, especially as its big summer show, a slot usually reserved for obvious crowd-pleasers, usually involving Impressionism. Because although Artist Francis Bacon is certainly one of the 20th-century's most important artists–not to mention the fact that his work commands extraordinary prices […]

Yayoi Kusama at the Gagosian Chelsea Art Gallery is an eye-opener
Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian Art Gallery is Asian Art in New York at its Best The first thing to say here is that, in our not-so-humble opinion, the coolest piece of art currently showing at any Chelsea art gallery has to be Yayoi Kusama’s Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, a brand-new, specially-designed, free-standing room in […]

Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
One of the great New York City signifiers of Spring is the re-opening of the Metropolitan’s glorious Roof Garden, with its fabulous views of Central Park, readily available snacks and cocktails, and, of course, spectacular pieces of art. In past years this coveted space has been given to such luminaries as Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, […]