The New Museum Presents “Ghosts In The Machine”
The New Museum should be renamed “The Way Ahead of Itself Museum.” The curators take cutting edge and shred it to the core. Their bold vision never fails to awaken my eyes to another point of view, and to think outside the box I unknowingly erected around my life. It’s no longer a matter of [...]
The MET Presents “Cloud City” Rooftop Exhibition
LOOK! UP IN THE SKY!! A futuristic flock of seagulls? A compact version of the Space Shuttle? A summer home for Spiderman? TRY AGAIN! An airborne community of Inuit igloos? HUH? A space age amusement park ride? A contemporary tree house? HINT……if you are thinking perhaps this is a new genus of cumulus [...]
The New York Botanical Gardens Presents “Monet’s Garden”
Summer is not subtle. It shouts at us, dares us, and ultimately plays with us. “Come out, come out wherever you are!” Gladly we accept this challenge. We work hard and surely earned the pleasures offered by this open season of outdoor living. Stay outside as long as you can! Make it a [...]
NYC’S Museum Mile
Recall my strong sentiments on New York City as a cost efficient outdoor museum…a continuous parade of noteworthy people, objects and activity? Well along comes a chance to test my theory, while enjoying FREE admission to some nine world class museums located along Upper Fifth Avenue. File this under a new category….the Best of “Budget [...]
Museum Of The City Of New York
The City of New York overflows with a spectacle of people, objects, and facades. It is truly an outdoor museum. So it should come as no surprise to learn that there is an indoor museum appropriately titled the “Museum of the City of New York” located on “Museum Mile,” upper Fifth Avenue, directly across [...]
Manhattan’s Most Serene Museum: The Cloisters
In the city that never sleeps, where hustle and bustle dominates and radiates, there comes a time to rejuvenate, reflect and renew. You relish a bite of the Big Apple, but before it bites you back, you search for a rapid, cost-efficient escape from the concrete jungle. Time for some city calm. The best part? [...]
Sony Wonder Technology Lab: Free Entertainment For The Whole Family
In an era when four-year olds are playing games on touch screens and use words like “iPad” and “USB” the way we used “ball” and “tea set” back in the day, children may be pretty hard to impress. Fortunately there are places and people who, instead of competing with the advances of technology and the [...]
The New Museum Presents “The Ungovernables”
“There’s something happening here…What it is ain’t exactly clear.” This lyric hauntingly opens the anthem of a 1960s generation ready to challenge the status quo. This deceptively simple lyric became resoundingly resonant in my ears as I toured “The Ungovernables”, a remarkable artistic exhibit currently on display at the New Museum. All five floors are [...]
March Thru Art At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Do you ever notice that when you enter a museum, the volume of your voice immediately drops? We speak in hushed tones; we are instantly humbled. A museum commands respect from its visitors, much like a library silently requests quiet. From dinosaurs to diamonds, landscape oils to whale oil, bronzes to busts, we are immediately [...]
A-Z In Fashion: The Best Designers Showcased At FIT
The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, praised for their innovative productions, has launched a new exhibition to highlight work by contemporary designers from their fifty thousand garments permanent collection. Instead of the usual chronological order, the curators have designed the exhibit to showcase garments and accessories alphabetically by designer from the 20th century to [...]
