Curiouser and Curiouser... The current New York Botanical Garden exhibit, Wonderland: Curious Nature is inspired by the imagination of Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Don't be late for this very important date in the gardens where visitors of all ages explore an enchanting wonderland and delight in a world of wild … [Read more...]
Enchanting Pumpkins
Beyond the Pumpkin Patch Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's enchanting pumpkins are a highlight for New York Botanical Garden's visitors to Kusama: Cosmic Nature this pumpkin season. Across the grounds and set among trees, reflected in pools and wetland Kusama's extraordinary work is stunning in this natural setting with real pumpkins and … [Read more...]
East Hampton Retreat
Fireflies, Artists and Flowers Was it the sunsets or the luminescent fireflies dancing on the lawn by Hook Pond that made my East Hampton retreat so memorable? Or was it finding a patch of iris, similar to those painted by Childe Hassam in 1909? Iris which Hassam immortalized in The Water Garden, a painting which mesmerized me in the … [Read more...]
Manhattan Walking New Highlights
Manhattan walking is always exciting, but this Spring the Big Apple has outdone herself. A few of the latest highlights are an interactive sculpture with 2500 steps, a $91.1 million rabbit, the highest outdoor deck in the Western Hemisphere and a stunning new Art Foundation. Put on your sneakers and begin walking on Fifth Avenue... Fifth … [Read more...]
Highlights from Met’s Heavenly Bodies Blockbuster Exhibit
Highlights from Heavenly Bodies Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is a stunning visual blockbuster. It is controversial, hotly debated and the largest, 60,000 square feet, most ambitious show ever staged by the Met's Costume Institute. It occupies two sites, the Met on Fifth Avenue … [Read more...]
