New York Offbeat Walks is a pocket-size guide with 12 walks covering Manhattan. This is not your typical guide, but shows the quirkier side of Manhattan. Perfect for jaded New Yorkers who want to rediscover their city and explore areas that they often overlook, and tourists who want to go off the beaten path. Each walk covers lesser-known architectural, historical, ... Read More »
<Excerpt from New York Offbeat Walks: Civic Center, Chinatown & Little Italy> Follow the map (north), looking to your right (1) for the imposing David N. Dinkins Municipal Building. One of the biggest public buildings in the world, it has been home to many New York City public offices since 1913. It combines a variety of architectural styles, from Imperial ... Read More »
“Entertaining, wide-ranging and gorgeously illustrated, Eating Eternity — despite its weird title — is a book you’ll want to lend to a friend. (But insist on its return.)” We are very pleased that Miranda Seymour chose to review our book, Eating Eternity: Food, Art and Literature in France, in The New York Times Book Review! EATING ETERNITY Food, Art and ... Read More »
Grand Central Terminal opened its doors to the public at midnight on February 1, 1913. The first train left at 12:20 AM. What began as the new terminal for electric trains transformed the area into prime real estate in Manhattan, called Park Avenue. There was a time when Park Avenue was known as Fourth Avenue, and it was populated mainly ... Read More »
Since the 1960s, Andy Warhol has served as the consummate image of the artist: glamorous, iconic, enigmatic. Is it any wonder that he has shaped generations of artists after him? Now the Metropolitan Museum of Art is examining the artist’s lasting legacy with Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. The exhibition, which runs from September 18 through December ... Read More »
The second annual New York Gallery Week kicks off tonight with a number of opening parties at galleries around Manhattan. Once more, NY Gallery Week is actually a long weekend in which 60 contemporary art galleries and not-for-profit spaces open their door for extended hours and free events like guided gallery tours by artists, curators and art historians, film screenings, ... Read More »
The blog 16 Miles has created a featuring all the lost art of New York City, from Diego Rivera’s Man at the Crossroads to the fictional address of Marcel Duchamp’s The Teeth’s Loan & Trust Company Consolidated. According to 16 Miles, the map will be “documenting the sites of performances, studios, public art installations, residences, and galleries that once existed ... Read More »
The Jon Favreau directed Elf may have come out seven years ago but that in no way has diminished its popularity, in fact, just the opposite. The movie is so popular, it is now counted amongst the great Holiday classics, played as regularly on tv during the season as It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story. Elf ... Read More »
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