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 | 
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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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THE ORIGINAL CITY HALL SUBWAY STATION CLOSED IN 1945, and since then has remained hidden as we, unawares of the beauty below us, dragged our sorry asses from home to work and back again. Now we can glimpse what used to be. If you stay on the #6 train, past the final stop–the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station–you will make a u-turn (don’t freak out; transit officials allow riders to stay aboard for the u-turn) until you are facing up-town. [...]
Posted in The City on October 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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Our trip to the Brooklyn Museum–the second largest art museum in the United States–was wildly successful (see below), but the new facade, designed by the firm of Cresson, Cresson, Cresson & Asshole, still vexes us. We don’t know much about architecture, but we do know that it should make some kind of, uh, sense. The glass addition to the old building, aside from having no apparent function looks like someone stuck high-tech chewing gum to a gorgeous antique bedpost. It [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on January 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
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Designed by “award-winning Broadway scenery and lighting designer Clarke Dunham and his artist/writer wife Barbara” (from the spine-tingling brochure), the Amazing Station is pretty cool. Four railroad scenes representing four vanished train-stations over the four seasons. For those of us who long for all-that-is-train (everything, that is, except for Metro North commuters obliviously screaming into cell phones), this is the place to be.
The Amazing Station: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Citigroup Building, 153 E. 53rd Street.
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on December 27th, 2006 | No Comments »
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