Timing is everything. Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel, a retrospective of Ms. Lucas’ work, has taken the New Museum more than a dozen years to mount. And there couldn’t be a more perfect time to explore this feminist artist’s oeuvre. Sexcapades of our government officials assault us daily, and women wearing pink pussy hats are speaking…
More that 100 years before Brandon Stanton created his blog “Humans of New York” there was Jacob Riis. Photojournalism didn’t exist, yet Riis felt compelled to tell the story of real New Yorkers — the nearly 75% of its inhabitants who lived in tenements in the late 1800s to early 1900’s.. He took to the…
Thanks to a voucher from Gilt City that we got as a gift, we saw Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition. Since we knew nothing about the exhibition we had no expectations…and it ended up being a great way to spend the afternoon. Not only is this exhibition fun, we gained a tremendous amount of respect for what it…
For want of something different to do on a rainy day my partner-in-crime and I ventured a bit farther north than we usually go to visit the Jewish Museum. I was intrigued by the current exhibition Revolution of the Eye – Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, but discovered so much more. Our…
I love the Tenement Museum. They have done a superb job in restoring this tenement building on the Lower East Side and I applaud the research that was done and that they continue to do. All of this makes the stories of the families who lived in this five-story brick tenement, home to an estimated…
