So we keep on keeping on. This week's adventures included a visited to The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory, which featured about 55 galleries selling work in support of the Henry Street Settlement. The day culminated at the Lyceum Theatre where the totally...
The art part of New York City continues to engage and enchant, including a bravura performance by iconic actor Gabriel Byrne in the autobiographical “Walking with Ghosts.” Likewise for another solo blockbuster, this one featuring artist Alex Katz at the Guggenheim. Other noteworthy artists are...
As we continue our deep dive into New York's cultural banquet, the following two plays entertained and enlightened. "Straight Line Crazy" at The Shed: “Robert Moses was in it to build his dreams. You know, as a young man he did wonderful things, and his dreams were...
More candy is sold for Halloween than any other time of the year. (The estimate from The National Confectioners Association is well over 1/4 of the candy sold each year in the US.). But the holiday is not all about pumpkins, costumes and candy. Early...
How can a church be "in the fields" given it is surrounded by cement and just how good is its choir? A recent highlight of our NYC adventure was a concert titled "Music for the Chapel Royal" at St. Luke's in the Fields. Go here for more...
Edward Hopper, (1882–1967) was the Top Gun among the realists of 20th-century America, whose alchemy transformed the ordinary into visual poetry with a focus on his muse: New York City. Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s eight-part film "2 Lizards" was acquired by the Whitney and...
“The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 8, 2023. The show begs the question: Who needs social media to be an influencer when you have - Hans Holbein? A second powerful show features...
Graffiti refers to the act of writing, drawing or painting text or images on surfaces like, but not limited to, walls. Artists who practice this form usually do so under a pseudonym - except for the iconic Cy Twombly. A highly informative, thoroughly engaging overview of...
"Saturn Devouring His Son" depicts the Roman god, also Titan Kronos in Greek mythology, savagely eating one of his children. It is one of Francisco de Goya's most brilliant – and most disturbing – paintings. And a major influence on the Japanese artist (and industry)...
Telluride and Mountain Village on the Fourth of July, two addresses, two happenings straight out of yesterday, from Kodak, Hallmark, and Rockwell. Go here for more about happenings in Mountain Village at its Red, White & Blues celebration. The original resolution calling for the Continental Congress to...
