Left, Museum Tower, 1982, architect, Cesar Pelli & Associates; center, The David and Peggy Rockefeller Building, 2004, architect, Yoshio Taniguchi; foreground, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, designed 1953, architect, Philip Johnson. ( Photo (c) 2005 Timothy Hursley) Art Under the Open Sky It’s the unofficial start of summer, and as New York City prepares to reopen, the itch to get outside and commune with nature... City Arts 19 May 2020 | 02:44
Donald Judd. Untitled. 1991. Enameled aluminum, 59″ × 24′ 7 1/4″ × 65″ (150 × 750 × 165 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bequest of Richard S. Zeisler and gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (both by exchange) and gift of Kathy Fuld, Agnes Gund, Patricia Cisneros, Doris Fisher, Mimi Haas, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Emily Spiegel. © 2019 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. ( Photo: John Wronn) Inside and Outside the Box As the shelter-in-place orders continue and New York City’s museums and cultural spaces remained closed indefinitely, art... City Arts 24 Apr 2020 | 11:23
Gerhard Richter. "Uncle Rudi," 1965. Oil on canvas. Památnik Lidice/Lidice Memorial. © Gerhard Richter 2019 (08102019) The Measure of the Unfathomable As New Yorkers hunker down and heed Governor Cuomo’s directive to stay home, one realizes that the new normal is a strange... City Arts 27 Mar 2020 | 02:57
Behnaz Sarafpour, white tulle and gold-brocaded evening dress, fall 2003, New York. Lent by Behnaz Sarafpour. ( Photo: Val Castronovo) Beauty, Poise and Style If you need a classical dance fix between now and the beginning of the New York City Ballet’s spring season in April, head... City Arts 27 Feb 2020 | 12:23
Kathy Fixing Her Hair in a Cigarette Machine Mirror, Coney Island, 1959. From Series: “Brooklyn Gang” ( Photo: Bruce Davidson) The Many Lives of a City Peter Stuyvesant’s map of his farm property. Milton Glaser’s “I [Heart] New York More Than Ever” poster following 9/11. A... City Arts 06 Feb 2020 | 10:47
Evening Dress, Jean Dessès (French, born Egypt, 1904-1970), fall/winter 1953-54. Promised gift of Sandy Schreier. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ( Photo: © Nicholas Alan Cope) The Wow Parade Sandy Schreier, who is coy about her age, has been collecting clothes since she was a child. She would frequently tag along... City Arts 19 Dec 2019 | 08:59
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Self-Portrait as a Soldier, 1915. Oil on canvas. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. Charles F. Olney Fund In Love with Color Art fans may not be able to immediately place Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), the German Expressionist giant who achieved... City Arts 22 Nov 2019 | 11:27
Edith Halpert in 1955 with Georgia O'Keeffe's In the Patio IX, one of the prizes of her personal collection. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Downtown Gallery records Art for Everyday People New York art dealer Edith Halpert (1900-1970) may have zero name recognition, but the names of the artists she represented... City Arts 07 Nov 2019 | 12:50
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). Sybil Sassoon, 1912. Charcoal on paper. ( Photo: Christopher Calnan) Charcoal Beauty For Sargent freaks, the wait is over. It’s been more than four years since the city has seen a major show dedicated to the... City Arts 18 Oct 2019 | 11:02
From Anna Sui's Grunge collection (Spring 1993), with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in the background. ( Photo: Jenna Bascom) Bohemian Rhapsody Anna Sui is having a New York moment. The fashion queen’s designs are the stuff of a splashy retrospective at the Museum... City Arts 03 Oct 2019 | 11:38
64th Street Red-Necked Grebe (only on view through November 2019). ( Photo: Val Castronovo) Broadway's Fine-Feathered Friends Call it a show for the birds — an open-air exhibition on the Broadway Malls that raises awareness of avian species threatened... Newsletter 25 Sep 2019 | 02:32
Mini re-creation of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, with Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, “Enchanted Island” bustier dress with bracelets and embroidered shoes, fall/winter 1987-1988, France. CHANEL Patrimoine Collection, Paris. ( Photo: Val Castronovo) Fashion City There may be fashion weeks spanning the globe today, in Lagos, Moscow, São Paulo and Shanghai, but Paris remains the leader... City Arts 12 Sep 2019 | 02:20
Maud Earl, "I Hear a Voice" (1896; Saint Bernard). ( Photo: David Woo, American Kennel Club) Top Dogs Fans of PBS’s “Victoria” will no doubt have noticed the British monarch’s infatuation with Dash, a Cavalier King Charles... City Arts 28 Aug 2019 | 04:26
Lucian Freud, “Woman in a White Shirt,” 1958-60. © Devonshire Collection. ( Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees) A collector’s paradise Who can forget Keira Knightley, as Elizabeth Bennet, roaming the sculpture gallery at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy’s manse, in the... City Arts 02 Aug 2019 | 12:42
