“It’s May! It’s May! That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray”
Well, except you, dear readers because I present to you some Greater Gotham May Highlights! And to continue my show tune theme, let’s not “Start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.” No, let’s instead start at towards the end of […]

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New York Magazine has a preview of the Costume Institute’s upcoming “Superheroes” exhibit (opens next week). Now, this could be a really interesting show. It all depends on how they the (increasingly inadequate) space for the concepts and themes they are trying to exhibit.
The last show I went to at the Costume Institute was blog.mode […]

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Forgive the extended absence, all. The post cruise fogginess (that no one warned me about, by the by) took a while to clear and then, just as things began to clear, I was struck down (and laid prone) by an incredibly bout of sciatica. I will not regale with with the details and descriptions of […]

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It’s a holiday weekend coming up and you know what that means? Even more time to do even more stuff. Never fear for Gotham is, as usual, awash in activities to entertain, educate and delight you and yours.
Books, books and more books, baby! Taschen Warehouse sale is running January 18-20 at their locations worldwide but […]

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 Remember a couple of month ago when I went to the East Side Tenement Museum? I thought it was fantastic and a must see for all. But since some of you make still waffling over whether to go or not, possibly this will convince you. Over on the City Room blog at the New York […]

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In celebration of the weather going up above freezing today (and in anticipation of it going even higher tomorrow), we’re off to the Costume Institute today to see the latest show — blog.mode: addressing fashion. I’ve been reading the the exhibit blog for a while and I can resist no longer. Especially now that I can […]

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Remember the time I came down with a case of Museum Mania? And I said that there was one place I really had to go and see ’cause everyone was raving about it? Well, yesterday was the day. I went to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum yesterday and loved, loved, loved it.
The building went […]

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It’s too hot to actually go out today - so in the spirit of the virtual trip to the Cayman Islands I took on my personal blog, I thought I’d do a quick “No need to leave the comfort of my own home” tour of the museums of Manhattan.1
My museum of choice here in Manhattan […]

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I have walked and walked today. Dad wanted to go and do something today - anything to get out of the apartment, he said. So I put on my “Julie, The Cruise Director” hat and picked out some options.
He decided that he wanted to see the map exhibit at the New York Public Library (well […]

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