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Party at Red Bull Studios with Johnny Depp and Ralph Steadman
Art and Johnny Depp- sounds good right? This week, head to Red Bull Studios to check out a pop-up exhibition by Johnny’s pal, artist Ralph Steadman. There’s even a sweet […]
Two Great Collage Openings at Studio Vendome Projects Tonight!
Curated by Peter Hastings Falk, Studio Vendome and Studio Vendome Projects present two extraordinary collage exhibitions by Don ZanFagna and Sophie Aston. Don ZanFagna in the 1970s: The Manhattan Project, […]
Neighborhoods
The Monkey Bar and Hotel Elysee
LitNerd Wednesday! I have mixed feelings about Midtown — like the rest of the city, I find some of the modern architecture kind of awful but I really like the hidden […]
What is Now Bergdorfs was Once the Largest NYC Mansion of the Gilded Era
We love Bergdorf Goodman for its continual celebration of art-meets-fashion with their innovative windows. But before the fashion mecca was built in 1928, the corner was home to the largest […]
A Bit of the Berlin Wall
This out of place street art in Midtown is actually an important part of history. In the little pedestrian plaza where the area corporate drones have their lunch, is this […]
Chasing Marcel Duchamp Around New York
During his lifetime, visionaire Surrealist, Cubist and Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp took residence in New York many times. In 1915, after the declaration of World War 1, he fled Europe, moving into a […]
Lee Bontecou is Frightening
Lee Bontecou’s futuristic and ominous works are at once painting and sculpture. Made from steel frames and recycled canvas (like conveyor belts and mail sacks, rather than fine artist’s canvas), […]
Fort Greene
LitNerd Wednesday! I just can’t quite get out of this Brooklyn literary history theme of the past week — so many planted down here and I still haven’t touched on […]
5 in 1
Of all of Tony Rosenthal’s sculptures around New York, the saddest is “5 in 1,” which has definitely seen better days. Hidden behind 1 Police Plaza near City Hall, the […]
Flatiron Prow Artspace
Everyone knows I wander the streets of New York, taking in the architecture with an overly romantic eye, and gazing up at the Flatiron Building is like icing on the […]
Jackson Pollock’s “Penthouse”
In 2011, the apartment of art history’s favorite alcoholic, Jackson Pollock, came up for sale on Carmine Street. Billed a “penthouse,” the smallish 800 square foot apartment is more like […]
Art Deco Splendor on Exchange
We love the art in the architecture of New York, and were stopped dead in our tracks when passing 20 Exchange Street. The doors at the former City Bank Farmers […]
Sunset Park
LitNerd Wednesday! Sunset Park — there really isn’t much going on there and it’s hardly a hip destination to live. In fact if you live in New York City and […]
Warhol and 25 Sams
Who would’ve associated the Upper East Side with Pop Art? Built in 1889 by Plaza Hotel architect Henry Hardenbergh (he also designed the Dakota), Andy Warhol bought this modest townhouse […]
Let’s Get Physical
Although Led Zeppelin’s double-record “Physical Graffiti” was recorded in the UK, designer Peter Corriston wanted to shoot the cover in a tenement building in New York. After combing the city, […]
Peggy Loves Max
Dating artists when you are a curator or collector never works- believe you me. Yet Supercollector Peggy Guggenheim fell for Surrealist painter Max Ernst’s bohemian wiles, and the two lived […]
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