Pete’s Tavern Window (Photo By Gail)
OMG, we made it to Christmas! I took the above photo this past winter standing on the sidewalk looking at the festive display window at Pete’s Tavern in Gramercy Park. I can’t think of any image cheerier than this to send greetings to all my readers. Have a peaceful and happy holiday, everyone. The best is yet to come.
Photos By Gail
My much-anticipated Photo-Recap of the 2023 Summer Fancy Food Show is coming very soon . . . but not quite yet. Because all of that hot recapping action takes time. While we wait patiently, please enjoy this week’s extra-sweet Pink Thing, which comes to you in the form of a Fancy Pink Heart-Shaped Cake that has been personalized to Italian Chef and Food Network Personality, Giada De Laurentiis.
Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: Fancy Pink Cake for Giada De Laurentiis
Photo By Gail
Window on the City No 3 (1912) belongs to Robert Delaunay’s series City (La Ville, 1909-11) which helped establish his reputation as a leading avant-garde artist. The painting also marks a fundamental transition in the artist’s oeuvre: while in earlier paintings light was a device used to break up objects, in this work light becomes the subject itself. The patchwork texture, common to his paintings, is transformed into a consistent pattern of triangles and rectangles.
Continue reading Modern Art Monday: Robert Delaunay, Window on the City No. 3
All Photos and Video By Gail
The scale model of Progressland refers to the General Electric pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair, whose themes were “Progress through Electric Power” and “The Wonders of Atomic Energy.”
Continue reading Eye on Design: Scale Model of Progressland for the 1964 New York World’s Fair
Cyclops Head from Spook-A-Rama (1955), All Photos By Gail
Two of my most-memorable adventures of the summer of 2015 were a Saturday afternoon, and a Friday evening, that I spent having various types of crazy fun at Coney Island, Brooklyn — which is truly a magical place where there are endless wonders just waiting to be discovered. I just love it there. If you are also fan of Coney Island, then I hope you had the chance to see Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 – 2008, which, sadly, just closed at the Brooklyn Museum this past weekend.
Continue reading Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 – 2008 at The Brooklyn Museum