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A Walk to See Carl Jung\'s Red Book: A Journey Into the Psyche
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (July 1875 – June 1961) embarked on an extraordinary journey in the years before World War I, a dangerous adventure that took him inward to the deepest recesses of his psyche. At the time he embarked on the journey he h...
New York Museum Exhibitions, Fall 2009: A Selected List, with Openings in September, October, and November
Celebrations of abstraction, several fine drawing exhibitions, a major Kandinsky retrospective, a visiting Vermeer, an imaginative filmmaker, and the continuing celebrations of the New York in its 400th year of discovery highlight the fall cultural s...
The Time and Place for James Ensor, Unmasked
Artists who express a fondness for masks aren't necessarily kooky. Carnival masks often show up in the art made in joyous seaside cultures whether it's Venice, New Orleans, Rio, or yes, Ostend. A major seaside city that rose to prominence due to the ...
A Visit to Audubon Terrace and Environs
Though far from the state of dilapidated ruin that would excite the fantasy of the modern romantic, the worn facades of the monumental museums that make up Audubon Terrace in Washington Heights look sufficiently weathered to induce a civic form of me...
French Lessons: Visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art's New American Wing, and Paris Photographs from the Second Empire
The New American Wing, the second phase of the renovation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's American collection, has opened to the public, including the Charles Engelhard Court and the period rooms of decorative arts. In spite of the name, the wing...
New York, in Vintage Black and White, and Photography Posts on Walking Off the Big Apple
Some see the world through rose-colored glasses, but many of the city's most famous image-makers prefer to see New York in black and white. Street photographers, portrait photographers, documentary photographers, photojournalists, almost every variet...
The "fresh, green breast of the new world" - Mannahatta/Manhattan
A particularly noisy robin lives near me, perched somewhere in a sycamore tree on the east side of our building. Already sensing the light of day and anticipating the morning, the bird chirps incessantly through the hours of nautical and civil twilig...
A Visit to Astoria, Then & Now: The Marx Brothers at Paramount Pictures and Notes on Contemporary Attractions
The Marx Brothers at Paramount PicturesIn 1929, in the wake of their stage successes, the Marx Brothers signed a five film deal with Paramount Pictures. During their stage run in Animal Crackers at the Forty Fourth Street Theatre, the Marx Brothers t...
WOTBA New York Events Calendar: Howdy, Sailor! Edition Monday, May 18 - Monday, May 25, 2009
Hard to believe that next Monday, May 25, is Memorial Day. On Wednesday, Fleet Week begins and with it a multitude of events to welcome service members to New York. See the link for Fleet Week below for more information.• Monday, May 18. American B...
New York Museum Exhibitions, Summer 2009: A List, with Openings in June, July and August
Some people plan trips to New York based on the appeal of blockbuster museum exhibitions, especially the ones that gather work under the same roof for a brief amount of time and that will not likely occur again in one's lifetime. That's a good reason...
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressions of Water
People often lose umbrellas, but I've held onto a special one for many years - a large parapluie (literally, for the rain, in French) with a wooden base and curved handle that upon opening reveals the painting Paris Street, Rainy Day by painter Gusta...
WOTBA New York Events Calendar: Monday, April 13 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
I'm a little preoccupied with tax preparations today. For some reason, I thought April 15 was next weekend, not Wednesday.• I NEED TO STAY HOME AND DO TAXES BUT OTHERS CAN GO TO THIS. Monday, April 13. An Evening with Jeff Koons, Strand Bookstore, ...
New York Museum Exhibitions, Spring 2009: A List, with Openings in March, April and May
What follows is a preview of selected museum and other art center exhibitions opening in New York City in March, April, and May of 2009. Collectively, these forthcoming exhibits promise to make a strong season in the visual arts.American Academy of A...
A Timely Visit to The Museum of American Finance
One day this past week, while watching the opening minutes of the markets on various TV channels, experiencing vicariously the adrenaline rush, or in this case, the nausea, that attends the opening bell, it seemed like American finance, as we've come...
WOTBA New York Cultural Events Calendar, with Events for Lincoln's Birthday and Valentine's Day: February 9 - February 15, 2009
DOGS. Monday, February 9 and Tuesday, February 10. The 133rd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show: Madison Square Garden, Seventh Ave at 32nd St. 8 am–11pm. $20–$145. Also on TV but you miss the smell of pretty dogs. USA & CNBC.ART. Open Mondays....
The Curious Lines of Animals and Leaves (A Review)
Man may be the measure of all things, but what of dachshunds, blind owls and antelopes? While the drawings from the Thaw Collection currently on display at the Morgan Library & Museum feature many images of human beings - Gauguin's Breton girls, a ma...
The Flâneur's Sketchbook and Camera
I've been spending the morning contemplating what to do with this nice day, but after reading about the openings of the two big drawing exhibitions at the Met and the Morgan, I've decided that drawing shall be the theme of the weekend. I plan to visi...
William Eggleston and Alexander Calder at the Whitney
A body of sustained and consistent work over a lifetime separates real artists from poseurs. Real artists make art because they can't help it. It's a fever, an obsession, often the only way they know to express themselves. Sometimes, artists make wor...
Museums in New York Open on Tuesdays
American Folk Art Museum, 45 W. 53rd St.Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th St.) Pictured leftInternational Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd StreetThe Metrop...
Rainy Day New York: Places to Go in the City When the Weather Turns Frightful
When bad weather hits, I find it hard to leave the apartment. But, sometimes you get sick of staying at home and need to be somewhere else. Fortunately, New York City has many great places to spend a day indoors. The hard part is getting motivated to...
George Tooker and Ralph Albert Blakelock at The National Academy Museum
Visitors to Museum Mile this fall should stop in the National Academy Museum at Fifth and 89th Street to see the remarkable George Tooker retrospective. While there, also find the set of stairs at the back of the exhibition galleries to see the land...
The Guggenheim's Iteration of the Great Whatever: A Review
An informal review of the exhibition titled theanyspacewhateverSolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumOctober 24, 2008–January 7, 2009A year ago, Unmonumental, the inaugural exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art on the Bowery, brought us a little u...
Visiting New York on a Monday
Monday is the busiest time, hit-wise, for this website, Walking Off the Big Apple. While some of this traffic may be explained by the number of workers returning to their offices and enjoying WOTBA on their employer's big display monitors, it's mainl...
Selection of Fall 2008 Museum Exhibitions in New York: UPDATED
What follows is an updated list of selected museum and other art center exhibitions in NYC for Fall of 2008:MAD (The Museum of Art and Design), 2 Columbus Circle:MAD has opened its new home on Columbus Circle with three exhibitions - Second Lives: Re...
10 New Books of Interest for the New York State of Mind: On Modernism, Landmarks, the Brooklyn Genius, Pancakes, Pre-Punk History, and more
• New York Dolls: Photographs by Bob Gruen (Hardcover)by Bob Gruen (Photographer), Legs McNeil (Commentary), Morrissey (Afterword)Abrams Image. September 1, 2008.The New York Dolls paved the way for many of the Punk, Glam and New Wavers in the cit...
J.P. Elephant: Drawing Babar at the Morgan
I thought that seeing the exhibition Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors at the Morgan Library and Museum this past Saturday might provide some escape from the financial perils emanating from Wall Street, but the Morgan is no place to do so. ...
Strolling the Museum Mile (and a Half) and Contemplating the Current Financial Crisis (Slideshow)
Writing about Edith Wharton and New York in 1900 necessarily involves a discussion of wealth and social class, so strolling down Fifth Avenue from E. 104th Street to E. 70th (an area that encompasses Museum Mile, plus another 12 blocks to the Frick C...
Dalí and The Surrealist Mysteries of New York
Of all the wonders at the exhibition, Dalí: Painting and Film at MoMA, I was especially intrigued by his painting, The Surrealist Mystery of New York (1935), the artist's response to his eagerly anticipated visit to New York in 1934. The occasion of...
