One of the reasons I’m here. https://www.lakewood-center.org/pages/home click on the yellow title and see the pics. I am totally made up to look like a woman from my childhood: “Auntie Myrtle” revisited!.
Category Archives: Art
Life Imitating Art
This photograph, taken by HilaryH looks like a painting. It is taken through a window at the Guggenheim, as you can see the curved exterior of the Museum on the left.
Art
This visual is so explanatory. It looks like the freight section of a train station. It is the art in crates for the to-be-installed exhibition at the Guggenheim. One never sees the art arriving, only when it is hung. These are assembled on the main floor of the Guggenheim on Saturday. The door/delivery entrance behind …
Last Night
This is how one of the streets in the Village looked last evening. Mid June.
More Theatre Interiors
A splendid example of more artistry on the left. On the right, the construction of the entire seating area is all plywood and the seat cushions are thin and serve the purpose of designating the ticket seating number. This entire seating arrangement sets the scene for a play that is a metaphorical cock fight.
Priceless!
This house is on the Upper East Side on a street of exquisite buildings. The photo left is a partial of the entrance with a flowerbox above the impressive portal. The photo [right] below is a shot of the entire facade. The photo left is the adjoining house of a famous painter, now deceased. …
The Whitney
Apparently shunned by its upscale neighbors due to their dislike of its architecture, it is nonetheless a bastion of modern American art. Currently the exhibit is the Whitney Biennial 2012. But the exterior, composed entirely of cement does resemble a building that might have applied for the job of fortress. It was progressive and innovative …
The Right Answer
As you stand in Union Square, 14th Street and Park Avenue, and look up, you see a huge piece of art on a building across the street to the south. Sometimes there is steam coming out of the center of this piece of art. To the left of this art display there is a row …
BAM
and then it hits you! What a great advert. BAM is the acronym for Brooklyn Academy of Music which is much more than that: theatre, movies, events, quite a roaster of choices. Saw Jonathan Pryce in The Caretaker written by Harold Pinter. But it is their ad that always draws me in first. BAM, and …
Figurines
They appear unexpectedly: the proverbial cigar store Indian. I will add them to the post as I happen upon them.