I know I post a lot about art museums and exhibits, but when I go to the States, I like popping by natural history museums like The Field Museum in Chicago. Incidentally, I haven’t been to the one in New York (possibly because I’m too overwhelmed with everything else I ought to do while there), […]
I was going to post about the States trip in order… but then I forgot about our little side trip to Boston/MA. So here, have a slice of Chicago first. I actually spent a part of my birthday on a plane from NY/NJ to Chicago, so I was pooped and cranky even though we had […]
& Some Thoughts on the City That Never Sleeps I’ve been meaning to write this post for the past few months, and the fact that it took me so long is proof (for me) of how mystical New York still is in my brain. I know that a lot of people are disenchanted with it […]
Before the Whitney hauled off to their new location High Line (which opens in the spring!) from their Marcel Breuer-designed building in the Upper East Side, we got to see the Jeff Koons retrospective and some of the pieces in their beautiful permanent collection. But, first! Jeff Koons From Shaping a Collection: Five Decades of […]
(Not really.) The visit to the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art) was, predictably, pretty frustrating. It’s the one museum staple (ha!) that always leaves me a little underwhelmed. I think it’s an effect of me being bogged down by the volume of their collection that has everything—from Native American to African to Egyptian to Greek, etc. […]
