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Florence, Machine & McQueen

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Nostalgic for the Met’s McQueen show last year? In the run-up to 2012’s Costume Institute Gala at the Met next Monday, Vogue is running its fantastic video of last year’s gala featuring, well…everybody. Just try to count the famous faces in this video.

You’ll get a glimpse of the red carpet, the grand staircase, cater waiters, celebs, designers, Scottish bagpipers, the exhibition itself, and Florence holding forth at the Temple of Dendur with vocals, charisma, and lighting that Lee would have loved (very Plato’s Atlantis).

In case you didn’t know, this year’s fete will celebrate Schiaparelli and Prada, who are taking up residence at the Met through mid-August in an exhibit that opens to the public on May 10, featuring videos by Baz Luhrmann with fictional “conversations” between these two design icons. Preview some of the featured fashions and theme.

And be sure to set your calendar to see the live web stream of the glitterati on this year’s Costume Institute red carpet on May 7, sponsored by the Met, Vogue, and Amazon.

Oil Drills in Manhattan

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 Have you seen the latest art installation in the Theater District? It’s Josephine Mecksper’s Manhattan Oil Project – two 25-foot tall oil pumps churning away 4 hours a day (twice a day) weekdays and 8 full hours each weekend.

Go to the undeveloped land on the southeast corner of Eighth Avenue and 46th Street and bring your friends (and camera) before it’s gone.

Sponsored by Yvonne Force Villareal’s Art Production Fund, which produces hard-to-produce artist installations, this one had special help from Sotheby’s and The Shubert Organization, which know a thing or two about mining riches in Manhattan.

Is it actually pumping oil? Feel free to stand there and answer out-of-towners questions on that one.

 

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!