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Three New Exhibitions at the Met
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
This Spring, New York’s venerable institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is offering us an array of goodies – in addition to Schaparelli/Prada — to
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
Although Miuccia Prada (born 1949) was not enthusiastic about the idea of comparing and contrasting her ideas and designs with those of another idiosyncratic Italian
Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
Paris, between World War I and II, was a glorious era for the arts (Proust, Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, The Ballet Russes). It was also a
Botanical Garden’s Orchid Show
Friday, April 20th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Living Around
This is the final weekend of the Bronx Botanical Garden’s spectacular “Orchid Show.” Highlights include Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens — walls of orchids that dazzle
Easter Parade: A Feast for the Eyes
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Living Around
Last Sunday, the weather was perfect: sunny, blue skies and in the 60′s. Young and old, male, female and in between came out for New
The Conservancy Garden in Full Bloom
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Living Around
The Conservatory Garden at 105th Street and Fifth Avenue, a six acre formal garden, whose allées of flowering pink and white crabapples are now in
Battle of the Ages: Federer Versus Murray
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
You would think that Federer Versus Murray, a Scottish play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe about the Swiss Federer and the Scottish Murray
Mohamed Nasheed: The Island President—A Credible and Moving Voice on Global Warming
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
Run do not walk to see a brilliant and important new documentary film about a political and ecological hero, Mohamed Nasheed, the recently ousted President
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