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Category Archives: Arts & Events
Cloudless Chimes
In the tunnel, walking from the #5 IRT to Times Square Shuttle, we heard this ethereal trio of voice. Unfortunately, the vid doesn’t capture the beauty of their music echoing in the tunnel. Should have been filmed from further away.
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Shut up
What we like best about Ricardo Hernandez are his fabric collages and sketches; they give us night terrors. What we like least about Ricardo Hernandez is what he says about his art: “In my work,” he said, during our recent … Continue reading
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Orange and Weird
Má Pêche, David Chang’s orang-y breakfast and lunch boite located in the Chambers Hotel is a bi-level space with street-level bar and take-out bakery, and lower level dining room. It is very orange. This is Mr. Chang’s first venture above … Continue reading
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Koolhaas in Kaos
We often gaze at the frightening and beautiful, Rem Koolhaas-designed One Madison Square, sure that it’s a baby’s breath from toppling. But despite the psychotic design and the economic chaos now engulfing the building–developers have defaulted on the mortgage, owing … Continue reading
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Tagged 23 East 22nd Street, default, One Madison Square, Rem Koolhaas
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Hurt Till You Laugh
Early this morning, Amsterdam Avenue and 68th Street, we passed a wall in front of a construction site we’ve passed many times, noticing that a swath of pure white had replaced the battalion of music and movie ads, a screaming … Continue reading
Is Mike Alaska the Champ?
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Tagged mike alaska, percussionist, subway musician, union square
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Julius C Lives!
Julius C performed at the corner of Broadway and Waverly, June 21, 2007, and they shook that tiny crowd. This is what rock and roll is supposed to be…young, dumb, and street. Julius C, wherefore art thou?
Can-Fantastic!
Canstruction, which just finished its run at the World Financial Center, teamed students, mentored by professional architects and engineers, who created humongous and slightly disturbing can structures. Made entirely of unopened cans (with an occasional cereal box or peanut butter … Continue reading
The Other Guys
EVEN WITHOUT PHOTOSHOP, THIS WRECKING BALL, RENTED FOR THE MOVE THE OTHER GUYS, IS A DOUBLE-TAKER. The Other Guys stars two sure-to-be-hasbeens, Will Ferrell and Marky Mark, in what we used to call a caper/comedy. If the film is half … Continue reading
Maya Lin: Still Breathtaking
WHAT IS IT ABOUT MAYA LIN THAT MAKES SO MANY OTHER ARTISTS SEEM… IRRELEVANT? While not as monumental as her Vietnam Veterans Memorial, nor as sweeping as her Storm King-based “Bodies of Water,” her “2 x 4 Landscape” installation at … Continue reading