Aug 8, 2016 | Art, New York
The New York City Parks Department has over a thousand monuments and public art installations scattered across the boroughs. A great many of them are the sort you’d stumble across by accident as small treasures tucked away in parks. Now, for the very first time,...
Aug 3, 2016 | Art, New York
SITU Studio is an architecture firm based in Brooklyn. Architecture firms are the source (in various ways) of a lot of the many, many public art works across New York City, but this one seems special. Self-aware, maybe. “Sharing Models: Manhattanisms,” was...
Aug 1, 2016 | Art, New York
The Donald Trump presidential campaign inspired a lot of strong feelings across the country. Trump has been the subject of countless satirical pieces. One that became quite a sensation was a piece of art done on a wall in New York City. It was a mixture of Donald...
Jul 28, 2016 | News & Trending
When a couple decides to buy an engagement ring, they are committing to a purchase of up to several thousand dollars. It’s an investment many are willing to make. But here’s the bad news: The diamond and gold industries are beset with problems from child...
Jul 22, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
The story of Rachel Segall, Erik Mercer, and Erik’s husband Sandro Sechi, and their two daughters is one of trust and generosity, and two families intimately linked forever. Rachel’s family felt complete to her before her college friend Erik asked for her...
Jul 20, 2016 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Intimism is a genre of art (and occasionally literature) depicting close, confined, intimate scenes, often with emotional weight and implied story, often of the domestic sort. “The Bedroom” by Van Gogh would be an example, though he would not have identified it as...
Jul 18, 2016 | News & Trending
In a public ceremony on June 16th, seven up and coming artists from New York City’s Art Students League will reveal their new sculptures. They are the sixth year of Riverside Park South’s “Model to Monument” program. And its last. But don’t mourn:...
Jul 6, 2016 | Art, New York, News & Trending
The Montauk Cutoff has been a Queens eyesore for years, an unused remnant of the much more widespread passenger rail system that used to weave among the New York streets. It makes a wavy C-shape from the old “Yard A” at its north end to its south terminus where Dutch...
