Reading and Roaming
Whitney Museum of American Art An every two year occurrence, the Whitney Biennial is designed to showcase trends in art and both emerging and established artists working in a variety of genres. Many of the artists in this year’s biennial are under 40 and their work gets at social, political and racial issues in both understated and …
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COHEN AND THE JEWISH MUSEUM The unseasonably cold weather and days of rain have kept us inside and a bit lazy. More time for reading and the occasional museum. Last week we paid a visit to the Jewish Museum especially for the Leonard Cohen exhibit, “A Crack in Everything,” which an acquaintance recommended. If you’re my generation, …
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Camp: Notes on Fashion This year’s Fashion Institute exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is all about camp from the early days of dandyish gay men to its adoption by women in outlandish and outrageous gowns and shoes. There’s low camp and high camp and camp that is somewhat subtle and that that is …
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Snippets of Art MoMA will be closing in June for about 4 months for a slight re-do. We opted to take advantage of our membership and walked the 20+ blocks from our apartment. Since we like their café on level 2, we had an early lunch of paninis—an Italian one and the chicken with cheese one. With …
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