The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
There are innumerable perks and benefits to finding a suitable NYC rental apartment and settling down in this, the best place on the planet. Here’s one: the vast amounts of incredible art, geared toward every taste imaginable, in galleries all over town.
From the massive textile maps and the maze of rugs in the MoMA’s atrium; to the smallest drawings and, even, just barely-there outlines of other drawings, upstairs in the exhibition’s second section on the sixth floor; to the near-obsessive use of typography, and collage, in works throughout; the career-spanning retrospective Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan, now through [...]
How do some NYC residents show their love for the subway? They create Metrocard art!
Ghosts in the Machine, a huge new group show exploring the intersection–and, at times, collision–among humans, machines, and art, is the sort of shambling, serendipitous exhibition at which The New Museum, with its mix of soaring spaces and intimate nooks, generally excels.
Even though it can be heavy on tourists, and light on splashy shows, I love summer at the Museum of Modern Art. For one thing, it’s a great time to revisit, and to be re-awed by, the MoMA’s legendary permanent collection of paintings and sculpture on the museum’s fourth and fifth floors (seriously: I forget [...]
