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Brooklyn Holiday Art Mash Up
Details of four featured works, from top: Korumbo Gable Painting, 20th c. by unidentified Abelam artist; Girl in a Japanese Costume, c. 1890, William Merritt Chase; Mosaic Head Pendant, 700–800,...
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Celebrity Lace at the Met
It was all the rage 100 years ago – who could amass the best collection of antique lace owned by the rich and powerful, and what could you do with it to make a fashion statement? The Met still has its...
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Sparkle Plenty, Move Over Manet
Installation view of Mickalene Thomas’s Les Dejeuner sur l’herb Les Trois Femmes Noires, 2010. It’s large-scale, monumental painting of beautiful women languishing amidst patterned profusion, but it’s...
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Meet The Building You Didn’t Know at NYHS
Installation view featuring photos of the Whitehall Building (17 Battery Place), Grand Central Terminal, the Free Public Baths (538 East 11th), and the interior of the Plaza Hotel In one of the most...
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If You Love Brooklyn, Get to GO!
Installation view of Yeon Ji Yoo’s The Fight (2012), made of paper, paper pulp, acetate, glue, packing tape, cheesecloth, plastic flowers, recycled plastic bottles and bags Tucked away in the Mezzanine...
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War Ends at NY Historical
Join the crowds for two more days to pay tribute to NYC’s Greatest Generation at the revealing, reflective exhibition, WWII & NYC created by the New-York Historical Society. If you can’t get there...
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Brooklyn Museum Reveals Sargent’s Master Strokes
Sargent’s masterful 1908 White Ships that he likely painted in a day. Translucent and opaque watercolor and wax resist with graphite underdrawing, Source: Brooklyn Museum. Back in 1909, John Singer...
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Shimmering Curtains of Liquor-Bottle Caps Hung in Brooklyn
Installation view in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery on the Fifth Floor. Brooklyn Museum photo: JongHeon Martin Kim. They’re big, they’re from Africa, they’re hung in one of the most spectacular...
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African Art – 20th-c Modern Master Collectibles
The first African sculpture to be exhibited with modern masters in NY at Coady’s Washington Square Gallery in 1914. From Gabon. Source: Curtis Galleries, Inc. The show closing at the Metropolitan...
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Water, Water Everywhere at the Academy
Tintagel, 1881. Large, masterful watercolor by William Trost Richards depicting castle ruins on the Cornwall coast of England, which Richards associated with the legends of King Arthur. Who needs to...
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Stylish NYC Micro-Housing Showcased at MCNY
The 325 square-foot solution on display at MCNY: the TV wall slides away to reveal storage shelves. Source: MCNY With all the single people living in Manhattan and the outer boroughs, it’s kind of...
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Rich & Famous at Green-Wood’s 175th Anniversary
Show entrance featuring Green-Wood’s spectacular Gothic architecture. It’s big, green, historic, beautiful, and has more celebrities inside than you could ever imagine possible in an out-of-the-way...
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History Twist in Brooklyn’s Period Rooms
Hegarty’s “activation” of the Cane Acres Plantation dining room including Still Life with Watermelon, Peaches and Crows. Photo: Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum’s Period Rooms are again the focus of...
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Meet American Legends at The Whitney
Charles Demuth’s precisionist take on the grain elevators in his hometown, My Egypt, 1927. Five reasons to cozy up with the stars in the American Art Walk of Fame in the Whitney’s top-floor show,...
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Brooklyn Museum Shows What Rich Americans Buy to Impress
Miguel Cabrera oil (1760) of Dona Maria de la Luz Padilla y Gomez de Cervantes sporting velvet beauty marks and bling Conspicuous consumptions is nothing new, according to the Brooklyn Museum’s...
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The Corset that Changed Cultural History and the Man Who Made It
JPG’s creation for Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” segment of her 1990 tour. Made from vintage 1930s lame Amidst the light, glamour, glitter, and mystery sending shock waves and awe through the masses...
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Mutu Takes Art-Lovers on a Fantastic Brooklyn Journey
Le Noble Savage, 2006. Ink and collage on Mylar (over 7 feet tall). Collection: Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg. Image: courtesy of the artist. © Wangechi Mutu The Saturday night crowd at the Brooklyn...
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FIT Students Digitize and Unzip Biker Jacket History
The 1980 version of The Perfecto, which debuted in 1928 and is still sold by Schott Bros. Source: FIT The FIT fashion and textile grad students always pull out the stops on their shows in the Museum at...
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Last Day for Art & Industrial History: Kara Walker’s “Sugar Baby”
Crowds surround Kara Walker’s monumental sugar sculpture The crowds lined up yesterday on Kent Avenue all the way beyond the Williamsburg Bridge, almost to Schaeffer’s Landing, waiting to enter the...
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Before LeBron: Historic Tribute to Basketball Pioneers
Claude Johnson of the Black Fives Foundation, surrounded by memorabilia, in The Black Fives show at New -York Historical Society. With LeBron James’s big announcement in the news, it’s a good time to...
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