New York City
March 05, 2010
Looking for me this weekend?
March 01, 2010
Armory Week in NYC!
I spent the weekend resting up for the busiest art week of the year in NYC. Here's what I have in store. If I'm missing anything, please let me know!
- Monday: Artlog Live/Armory Week Kick Off at Gallery at (Le) Poisson Rouge
- Tuesday: PULSE is hosting their Armory Week opening at Hotel on Rivington
- Wednesday: Armory Show preview then off to MOMA's Armory gala featuring a performance by The Walkmen
- Thursday: Dinner with the good people of Artadia (an art non-profit org)
- Friday: Armory Show (deep dive after Wednesday's preview), PULSE, SCOPE shows
- Saturday: Art Dealers Association of America show
February 23, 2010
Culinary Insiders
If you're a foodie and live in New York, you should check out the Culinary Insiders. Membership offers some great opportunities from behind-the-scenes tours at new and top restaurants (I took a private tour at Daniel last weekend!) to private dinners with like-minded young professionals. The most interesting component of Culinary Insiders is the food + art collaborations. The organization pairs a chef with artists on really interesting projects (i.e. Daniel Boulud and VIk Muniz!).
February 21, 2010
An (Art) Storm is Coming
I'm going to spend the next 10 days preparing for the storm of art that is going to be hit NYC beginning March 3 with the Armory preview. If you're in town, be sure to hit up Pulse, dedicated to Contemporary Art, March 4-7.
February 05, 2010
January 21, 2010
A Show of Blogs
One of my favorite blogs is now a show. Beginning tonight James Danzinger (of Danzinger Projects) is opening an exhibition "The Year in Pictures" presenting a selection of photographs featured in the blog The Year in Pictures.
Begun in 2007, the blog has been a platform of his personal enthusiasm about the medium – a place to share good and new work that is sent to me or that I see on my travels; alert readers to new exhibitions, books, and other photography events; and reflect on ideas and issues. Since it's inception, the blog has posted over 500 stories, received over a million visits, and is viewed an average of 50,000 times a month.
January 15, 2010
Running a Danny Meyer Marathon
If eating is an art, then Danny Meyer is Jackson Pollock.
New York City has two rulers. The Hon. Michael Bloomberg is its elected mayor. Its equally honorable but unelected emperor, Danny Meyer, holds court without pomp at 10 palaces in New York County, aka Manhattan. These are restaurants admired round the world, restaurants ranging from the humblest hamburger stand to the higher reaches of Michelin-starred, plate-of-the-art fine dining. Make that 11 palaces, since Mr. Meyer, a mild St. Louisan, has just launched Maialino, a Roman-style trattoria, riding into town on a pig.
January 06, 2010
Between the Lines
I headed over to the Museum of Art + Design to check out “Slash: Paper Under the Knife,” the third show in the museum’s Materials and Process series, explores the sometimes violent, always intricate art of paper cutting. My favorite piece was Ariana Boussard-Reifel's "Between the Lines" who cut out every word in a book!
January 01, 2010
Go See: A View from the Bridge
Liev Schreiber can downright act and I'm not talking about his performances in Scream, X-Men or Repo Man. I just caught his performance in A View from the Bridge on Broadway.
Set during the 1950s in Red Hook, a poor Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn, the play depicts the fall of family man Eddie Carbone (Leiv Schreiber) who has helped raise his wife’s orphaned niece, Catherine (Scarlett Johanssonn). Now 17, she wears heels and “walks wavy,” transforming Eddie’s paternal affection into passion.
Desperate to keep her from marrying Rodolpho, a charming immigrant, Eddie informs on him and his tough brother, Marco, who exacts revenge.
December 31, 2009
Guggenheim Makeover
For an exhibition opening in February called Contemplating the Void, the Guggenheim asked over 200 artists, architects and designers to "imagine their dream interventions" in the museum's spiral space. This should be interesting!
