This post is mostly for my own peace of mind, but if you care in any measure, then I guess this is for you, too. First thing’s first: I lost my passport in Chicago on the day I was about to go back to the Philippines last January. So, I feel like that’s sort of […]
& 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. […]
Chelsea is a little pocket of streets in New York City to which most of the art galleries have moved to from their previous nesting spot in SoHo. (At least, that’s how I understand it.) You cannot go around Chelsea in one day and not feel overwhelmed. It’s just not possible. First, the trains are […]
