The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
Culturally savvy Upper West and Upper East Side residents know how to take advantage of the many amazing exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Because the Met’s admission price is always suggested, the best way to enjoy this massive, world-class wonderland of art and history is to pop in for about an hour, pay [...]
Art dealer David Zwirner is going all in in Chelsea’s world-class gallery district. Zwirner already owns much of the north side of 19th Street over there, with two or three or four (depending on the configuration) different spaces. And then in February Zwirner unveiled his minimalist beauty on 20th Street, a colossal, five-story exhibition and [...]
The Invisible Dog Art Center is a true South Brooklyn treasure, a friendly neighborhood art gallery and cultural event space situated right in the sweet spot among the communities of Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, and Downtown Brooklyn. Opened in the fall of 2009 (and thus reversing the usual NYC neighborhood chronology [...]
I recently visited John Kessler’s newest installation, The Web, at the Swiss Institute in Soho. If this is your kind of art, I urge you to make a visit. Mixed-media sculptor Jon Kessler has been a personal favorite for a bunch of years now, ever since I first saw his massive The Palace at 4:00 [...]
“A Period of Juvenile Prosperity” is a collection of photographs by Mike Brodie, some of which are now on display at Chelsea’s Yossi Milo gallery. In 2002, 17-year-old Mike Brodie walked away from his home and his life in California, a few personal items in a backpack, and joined America’s subculture of teenage train hoppers [...]
