Looking through the international design year book means saying, “that is so cool,” over and over.  So many of the things I viewed in the one I just perused I love.  The biggest standouts were prototypes.  Will they ever the see the light of day?  Like the mini flat lying portable sewing machine?  It’s just [...]

Brazilian artist Ethos’ meticulous and beautiful work is on display at the impressive new Ogilvy offices, alongside other great works from others as curated by the Carmichael Gallery.  The piece at Ogilvy is childlike, Tim Burtonesque, birds and old ladies, haunting, stunning, evocative, cartoonish. Seeing his work, like other great street artists–spray painted on to [...]

Last year, with an Oscar dinner party on the horizon, I crammed in a few last minute screenings and came up with clever and witty menu ideas to pun off some of the nominees. The move, and work and various other factors this year means I am totally clueless about this year’s lineup and I [...]

My recent discovery of Mt. Tremper Arts piqued my curiosity and a visit to their summer festival was added to my summer weekend to-do wish list.
Their program offering several weekend ago proved that MTA’s vision will provide solid, quality, innovative yet accessible work.
What a great new addition to the area and a beautiful, generous space [...]

Leandro Erlich’s Swimming Pool embodies all that is so alluring about a pool, except it’s not outdoors.  Seen from above to the wavering people below or vice versa in the tongue and cheek under water room complete with ladder, this pool is all hypnotic–letting one see the beauty of shimmer through water without the sting [...]

There is something about turning a page that is magical. Seeing titles on a shelf, fonts and colors.  Is the book going the way of the CD?  Kindles and other e-readers are perhaps the wave of the future, great for travel when carrying multiple books is a pain, better for the environment.  I see their [...]

Watching Savion Glover is a religious experience.  It really is.  There is no other way to describe this.  Last night at 45 Bleecker Theatres, Savion Glover and Pure Projects presented “Percussion Discussion” as part of their new series, Bleecker Thingz. The rhythms are cool, the person beautiful, the sounds ever-changing and dynamic but a song [...]

I finally saw Once.  I was sick of that “Falling” song after all the Oscar madness year before last and wasn’t in a rush to Netflix it but as I’m in this recording process, was inspired to move it up the list.  I have friends who are Frames fans, but I hadn’t heard much of [...]

Last night, as I left PS1, where I saw the intriguing Jonathan Horowitz show, And/Or,  and Leandro Erlich’s Swimming Pool, I was struck by the beauty of the lines of the walls constructed around PS1’s perimeter, angular and clean, with brick and bright graffiti building tops peaking over the wall from across the street.  I [...]

Last weekend, in a vintage shop in Saugerties, I modeled a 1940s hat for Marina, and said, “I wish I could wear these out but I’m too shy.”  I actually collect them because I love them and like myself in them but they sit in a hatbox in my closet on a shelf.  She was [...]