Archive for the ‘New York City’ Category
Fall Flavor Win
In case you needed more reasons to be excited for fall, New York Magazine comes out with a “Fall Flavor: 41 Things We’re Psyched to Eat (and Drink) This Season” slide show highlighting all the delicious meats and stews and soups and whiskeys a warm blooded girl in 40-degree weather could ask for. Fatty Cue and Prime Meats, see you next week.
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Wow, the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is disturbing, beautiful, and surrealist. The exhibition is guided by somber music and gilded mirrored walls. The hologram of Kate Moss is especially moving.
Manhattanhenge ≥ Stonehenge
Yesterday was Manhattanhenge, the urban phenomenon for when the sun aligns perfectly with Manhattan’s grid. Apparently, to the get the best glimpse of sunset you’re supposed to walk as far east as possible and arrive a half-hour before the designated time to watch the sunset. In between commercials of The Bachelorette (roughly around 8:15pm), I snuck out of my apartment to take a peak. I saw nothing. Was I doing it wrong? Was I too late. Too early? Luckily for me (and for us?) July 11-12th offer another chance to bask in the glory of this Significant Astronomical Event. The Hayden Planetarium writes:
What will future civilizations think of Manhattan Island when they dig it up and find a carefully laid out network of streets and avenues? Surely the grid would be presumed to have astronomical significance, just as we have found for the pre-historic circle of large vertical rocks known as Stonehenge, in the Salisbury Plain of England. For Stonehenge, the special day is the summer solstice, when the Sun rises in perfect alignment with several of the stones, signaling the change of season.
For Manhattan, a place where evening matters more than morning, that special day comes twice a year. For 2011 they fall on May 30th, and July 12th, when the setting Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan’s brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough’s grid. A rare and beautiful sight. These two days happen to correspond with Memorial Day and Baseball’s All Star break. Future anthropologists might conclude that, via the Sun, the people who called themselves Americans worshiped War and Baseball.
Photo Source: Gothamist
I’m Obsessed with GIFs
Quick, someone teach me how to make my own gifs.
(1) UES – 71st and Lex. (2) NYFW. (3) Subway. (4) Midtown restaurant. Source: From Me to You {The best blog ever}
Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York
The post comes a year or so late but this book would make a great gift for someone moving to or leaving New York City. A word about the photos:
“Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York” [is] a photographic survey by James and Karla Murray documenting disappearing mom-and-pop stores …
The project, ten years in the making, captures the unique and idiosyncratic storefronts that define the streetscapes of New York City. Bars, bakeries, restaurants, butchers, discount shops, etc., are all being slowly pushed out to make way for chains. Indeed, it’s a crisis of identity: since the start the project, over one third of the stores have closed. See more on James and Karla Murray’s Flickr Store Front photo set.
Bacon, Egg, and Cheese: New York Deli Style
For those of you in NYC, or for those of you who live near a legitimate bagel shop (no, CTB does not count), consider treating yourself to a delicious bacon, egg, and cheese this weekend. I have been craving one since my friend Jane made the most memorable breakfast last summer. A plain bagel, good cheddar cheese, whiskey on the rocks, a coors light, sitting poolside with best friends. You can make your own or get one from the closest best deli. Until I reach the home front this June, eat them. For me.
Source: Martha Stewart
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Messerschmidt’s Portraits at the Neue
“ ‘Anything great in this world has come from neurotics,’ Marcel Proust wrote.
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To the annals of aesthetic pathology we can also add the slightly milder case of the 18th-century German sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, who is the subject of a small but potent retrospective at the Neue Galerie. As was not necessarily true of the artists mentioned above, his mental disturbance manifested itself in his art, specifically in a series of bizarrely conceived busts known as character heads.
Among the more outlandish artifacts of the Age of Reason, 19 of these sculptures have been brought together for the show “Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736-1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism,” which has been organized in collaboration with the Louvre and travels to Paris from New York.”
Source: NYTimes
A great afternoon spent with my mom at the Neue staring at character heads.
Kate Spade: Still Got It
I love everything about Kate and Andy Spade’s awesome apartment. From the photos posted here, I especially appreciate our joint loves for: (1) black paint on a canvas in the living room; a good gin and tonic; stripes, gray, and stainless steel. From the rest of the Andy + Kate Spade collection on The Selby’s site, I love our appreciation for matchbox collections; entirely red canvases; hell, everything.
Source: Todd Selby
When the Going Gets Tough
What I want right now.
Source: Tory Burch’s Blog
