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.
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on June 9th, 2010 | 
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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 visit to his 106th studio, “I try to convey the weaknesses and strengths of man (both physically and emotionally) by using a cocktail of seemingly delicate materials, like fabrics, strings, wood, wire, glue and others, to make robust sculptures that echo the [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on May 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
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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 14th street—he owns four other restaurants, all Momofuku clones—but this space is the sparest. A large X-shaped table fills the room surrounded by walls that are mostly bare—with one notable exception: “Bad Route,” a painting by Miguel Calderon, made famous [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, Food & Fashion, The City on April 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
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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 lenders $200 million–it is still, aside from the Flatiron Building, the prettiest thing near Madison Square.
We caught it at 7 am on a recent morning and wondered (a) what magnitude of quake would [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on March 29th, 2010 | No Comments »
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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 invitation to anyone with a magic marker:
Then we saw this:
And felt guilty because—not sure why—we found it funny. Actually, we know why. For years, the easy outpouring of grief and patriotism and sport metaphor that immediately followed the attacks has [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »
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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?
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on December 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
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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 jar), the sculptures varied wildly from a map of the world, a slice of pie with a fork, and a Quaker Oats jar (including, disconcertingly, the Quaker Man’s face), all made entirely of metal cans.
The exhibit will travel across the [...]
Posted in Arts & Events on November 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
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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 as cool as the wrecking ball, we might catch it on late-night TV.
Posted in Arts & Events, Books/Films/Media on November 12th, 2009 | No Comments »
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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 PaceWildenstein is pretty breath-taking. Made entirely of two-by-four wood blocks standing vertically, the miniature landscape fills the room like an expanding lung. Around the edges, they stand side by side; closer to the middle, they stack on top of each [...]
Posted in Arts & Events on October 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
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