MUSEYON BOOKS Smart City Guides for Travel, History, Art and Film Lovers

  The subject of the new film Tamara Drewe by director Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity) might not be familiar to most people outside of the UK, but to those fans who have anxiously kept up to date with the affairs of the temptress of Dorset in the Guardian newspaper or read the graphic novels based on the comics ... Read More »

The Frick’s newest exhibition opened earlier this month and explores Spanish drawings from the early 17th to early 19th century through the work of such famed artists as Ribera and Francisco Goya. The show entitled “The Spanish Manner: Drawings From Ribera to Goya” will be up until January 9th and contains over 50 drawings focusing on Spain’s “inventive and unique ... Read More »

  Now in its 30th year, the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival will once more be taking over music venues all over Lower Manhattan as well in Brooklyn from Tuesday, October 19th to Saturday, October 23rd. Because of the Marathon’s association with NYU, festival headquarter is at the University’s Greenwich Village campus, where more than 120,000 “music fans, music ... Read More »

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of the late Robert F. Kennedy, a senator and brother of President John F. Kennedy, will be selling a rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Lincoln. Robert F. Kennedy bought the document in 1964 at Sotheby’s for $9,400, when he was serving as U.S. attorney general.   Sotheby’s is hosting the sale of ... Read More »

  Celebrate: It’s Columbus Day this weekend and that means that in New York City will be the annual Columbus Day Parade celebrating Italian heritage. Head to 5th Avenue Monday morning to check out the festivities and make sure to stop by Great Hall at Grand Central Station to catch a glimpse of the new Maserati on display.   Watch: ... Read More »

Yesterday, the Eldridge Street Synagogue unveiled the final and last piece in its renovation that has taken over 20 years, since it was rediscovered and saved from decimation in the 1980s, a stained glass window by contemporary artist Kiki Smith, in collaboration with architect Deborah Gans. The window is made-up of swirling blues and an array of stars, which mimic ... Read More »

According to art historian David Hockney, he was. Hockney claims that Caravaggio used a lens or other optical device to help paint his masterpieces, like his Bacchus on the right, the argument for which he outlines in his book, Secret Knowlege.   This view, however, is contended by Andrew Graham-Dixon, an art historian in his own right and BBC2 Culture ... Read More »

Is Liberty Island, whereupon the Statue of Liberty sits, in New York or New Jersey? The neverending debate rages on but according to geographers, a sadly for New Yorkers, the island that is one of the city’s greatest tourist attractions, for which people will wait for hours to see and allow themselves to be patted down and searched, is in ... Read More »