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Creative Capital Auction at Pulse NY
Creative Capital’s benefit Gala kicks off next week, but interested parties can catch a preview at PULSE New York this weekend. Auction previews of work by Franco Mondini-Ruiz and other sneak [...]
NEA 4 at New Museum
I am really excited about this series, particularly Karen Finley’s “Sext me if you can,” which starts at the end of the month. Check their schedule for all of the [...]
Neighborhoods
Lenin Statue at Red Square
The statue on the top of this building is not hailing a cab from the roof, but has actually hailed from Mother Russia. The giant Lenin was originally a state [...]
Warhol and Chipotle
Even in the late 1990s, St. Marks Place still had a sort of bohemian spirit, that is until Super Cuts moved in. The transformation of the buildings at 19-25 into [...]
Spring and Bowery- Jay Maisel’s House
This corner building on Spring and Bowery is sometimes shrouded in mystery. The exterior is a major street art target (going way back to the days of Keith Haring to [...]
Diva in the Subway
Gleaming in a gold dress with red hair, could it be…me? No, silly! Deep in the subway station of the 1 train at West 66th Street, aka Lincoln Center, are [...]
Subway Map Floating on a NY Sidewalk
The late Tony Goldman’s headquarters in Soho is chock full of art, from Henry Chalfant and Swoons in the lobby, to every inch of each tenants’ spaces on every floor. [...]
BUCKYBALL
Madison Square Park has quickly become my favorite little green space. I love timing people in line at Shake Shack, (yes that is weird… but once I saw someone wait [...]
BARRY MCGEE x BROOKLYN
Yay! Brooklyn has a new Barry! I was super psyched to hear that one of my favorite artists, Barry McGee, was returning to New York to paint a mural. In [...]
Rat Cop by Tom Otterness at Max Fish
Originally part of “Life Underground” (which we all know I am not a fan of…), The Metropolitan Transit Authority asked artist Tom Otterness to remove the bronze “Rat Cop,” as it [...]
Serra-Inspired House
The façade of this townhouse on Greenwich just below Gansevoort may look like a Richard Serra, but is actually a design of architect Matthew Baird. Built just a few years [...]
Anthro’s Secret Cabin
Tucked in the corner of my favorite store to walk around in, Anthropologie at Rockefeller Center, is a creepy urban cabin strewn with animal heads. Really, it is an art [...]
Club 57
Long before St. Marks turned into a smattering of random Asian places (it was all over the day Coney Island High closed and SUPERCUTS opened up- I’m still upset), it [...]
Almost a Fashion Museum
Yea, New York Vintage is a store- not something Art Nerd usually covers. But the intimate Chelsea showroom feels like so much more than a place to buy vintage clothes, [...]
Gordon Matta Clark’s Home Sweet Home
For a year or so, the bar Home Sweet Home on Chrystie was my go-to for a guaranteed dance party in Manhattan on the weekends. As all things are cyclical, [...]
TAKESHI MURATA in TIMES SQ.
I usually avoid Times Square at all costs, but I will admit I do like when my errands or assignments require me to go there every so often. Its weirdly [...]
