In 1883, Claude Monet was considered the leader of the impressionist painters. And it was at that time, he moved his family to a town outside of Paris, to Giverny. There he created a extensive garden and Japanese pond that would inspire him in his later works. [...]
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“It’s been nonstop since day one,” says a weary information booth clerk in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art. A security guard practically has trouble moving about in the massive gallery space. The paintings, drawings, storyboards, puppets and doodles by director Tim Burton — over 700 [...]
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In five years, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the sister team behind Rodarte, have amassed an impressive list of fashion awards and have seen their creations embraced by celebrities from coast to coast. Now they have been honored with an exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Second in the museum’s [...]
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Going out to dinner this Sunday for Valentine’s Day? Already dreading the crowds and the limited fixe prix menu that all restaurants offer that night?
Try this instead. Fix your topknot, grab your walking stick and celebrate Valentine’s Day just like the Victorians did. On Valentine’s Day, the Merchant’s House [...]
By Eleanor Foa Dienstag
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage is the first exhibition to provide an in-depth look at a little-known art form—combining photographs and watercolors—that flourished in the 1860s and 70s. And what a delight this small but exquisite show is.
Originally organized by the Art Institute of [...]
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By Carol Toscano
Alex Prager makes a profession out of playing dress-up. Except, she plays dress-up with friends to create staged scenarios of times seemingly long gone yet somehow modern and eerily intriguing.
Now through February 20th at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City, Los Angeles-based photographer Alex Prager, shares [...]
Courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum
Folk music is like a plate of meatloaf with mashed potatoes. It is nourishing to the body (and mind) and soothing to the soul. Deceptively complex melodies played without amplification and sung by unenhanced voices are the trademarks of folk music. Unlike a [...]
By MJ Hanley-Goff
In the late 1880’s, Clark Greenwood Voorhees took a bike ride through Old Lyme, Connecticut. Though he had just received a BA in Chemistry, an interest in art was emerging, and he eventually settled in the picturesque town that sits alongside Long Island Sound. Other artists [...]
If you find yourself with some extra time this weekend, you should head over to one of the three museum exhibits in town that are nearing the end of their engagements. The largest, at the Met, ends tomorrow and is a collection of some of the best [...]
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Visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque Creche is a religious experience, but you don’t have to be religious to appreciate this amazing exhibit that occupies the Medieval Sculpture Hall every holiday season. The tree alone, an artificial but fresh-looking 20-foot blue spruce, would be enough [...]
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