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The Arts Seen in NYC (Backwards Museum Mile Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to see what we could see and say, it was . . . cold. But the artwork was swell. We hit the city around three o’clock … Continue reading
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Tagged Access + Ability, Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s, Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris, Claude Monet, Cooper Hewitt, Edward Gorey, George Balanchine, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, Gorey's Worlds, Grant Wood, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, Lilies of the Alley, Louise Nevelson, Mel Bochner, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip, Museum Mile, Museum of the City of New York, Neue Galerie, New York City Ballet, New York on Ice: Skating in the City, New York Silver Then and Now, Norell: Dean of American Fashion, Parc Monceau, Peter Schjeldahl, Pockets to Purses: Fashion + Function, Public Parks Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, Quicksilver Brilliance: Adolf de Meyer Photographs, Rod Keenan, Scenes from the Collection, the Big Town, The Body: Fashion and Physique, The Joys of Yiddish, The Met, The Museum at FIT, The New Yorker, The Red Flame, Wadsworth Atheneum, Whitney Museum
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Did Dan Shaughnessy Just Jinx The Sox?
It’s called a kahn aynhoreh, “the magical phrase uttered to ward off the evil eye” according to The Joys of Yiddish. And Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy failed to say it in his front-page piece in today’s Sports section. Is it really necessary to … Continue reading