Category Archives: Art

Hey, Hey It’s the ‘60s!

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You have two more weeks to explore the fab, new tribute to the Mod, Mod world of 1960s fashion at FIT’s grad-student-curated exhibit Youthquake! The 1960s Fashion Revolution.

If you can’t make it to Seventh & 27th Street, check out the paper dresses, boutiques, and YouTube videos from the era, all posted on the exhibition web site. What’s better than watching original Paco Rabanne and Andre Courreges fashion movies from the late 60s, Grace Slick, and Ready, Steady, Go?

And what about the Youthquake timeline!!

Closes April 7, but it’s open until 8pm Tuesdays through Fridays.

MoMA’s Best-Ever Social Media Event

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Always ahead of the curve, probably the most innovative, fun, addictive social-media experiment by a museum in New York has been created and curated by the Museum of Modern Art. Why is MoMA out-doing everyone else? Because MoMA’s social network is on paper!!!

If you’ve strolled through MoMA’s lobby lately, you’ll see the biggest crowds (after the admissions line) gawking at a wall where MoMA projects digital scans of some of the 18,000 slips of paper filled out by visitors, all beginning “I went to MoMA and…”.

And what greater tribute to the success of this two-dimensional throwback in a hyper-connected world: MoMA featured some of the best in its full-page print ad in this past week’s Museum supplement in The New York Times (yes, that’s the newsprint edition).

Hilarious, touching, artistic, inspirational, and everyone looking, reading, and enjoying — isn’t that what we want our social media to be? Check out the pieces of paper on line.

 

 

The Art World Comes to Your Neighborhood Through Sunday

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Ready, Set, Go!!  It’s  Armory Arts Week, when New York City hosts curators, collectors, critics, and artists from all over the world.  Line up at Piers 92 and 94 (at 55th Street) and dive into The Armory Show, one of the best people-watching events all year.  Thursday to Saturday, the two piers are open and packed full of modern and contemporary art from Noon to 8pm daily (closing at 7pm on Sunday). And don’t ignore the eleven other art shows going on in Manhattan.

Never venture out of your own six-block radius? Now you have an excuse to use your MetroCard. Take advantage of over 75 free public art events in a different neighborhood each night – Tonight (Thursday) is Bronx Day and Soho Night. On Friday, enjoy Long Island City Night; on Saturday, Chelsea Day/Brooklyn Night; on Sunday, the Lower East Side and Downtown.

Visit artists studios, check out museums at night, pop in on alternative spaces, listen to podcasts touring subway-station art, and rub shoulders with the peripatetic global art crows. It’s a City-wide celebration!

Get to Harlem, Chelsea, and the Met to See These Before They Close

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NYC museum and gallery shows are near the end.  Closing on:

March 11 – The Bearden Project at the Studio Museum of Harlem (144 W 125th)

March 17 – Pace Gallery’s amazing Chelsea show about Happenings of the late 1960s (it’s extensive to plan to spend time (534 W 25th)

March 18 – The Renaissance Portrait show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art