Archive for 'museums'
Rococo
Met with friends from Toronto. Had a leisurely lunch at Neue Galerie, chatted, reconnected. Walked to Cooper-Hewitt museum to see the Rococo exhibit - wavy and curly, ornate and feminine, old and new. Very well put together. Miss Rococo blogs, too.
The gift store at C-H is orgasmic…. Then off to the Met Museum store to […]
Posted: April 5th, 2008 under New York City, museums, shopping, art.
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Isamu Noguchi
Visited the Noguchi museum last week. Isamu Noguchi was an american sculptor. His main medium was stone. There are beautiful stone sculptures at the museum in Queens, NY. Noguchi was born in 1904 in Los Angeles to Leonie Gilmour, an American writer and Japanese poet Yonejiro (Yone) Noguchi, who had returned to Tokyo earlier […]
Posted: April 1st, 2007 under New York City, museums, art.
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frick and pizza
Visited the Frick today - perfect rainy day for a trip to the museum. We took the car, found a spot right in front of it! A bit of an un-New York thing to happen.
Saw the Jean-Etienne Liotard - Swiss Master exhibit. This was a pretty amazing illustrator / painter who painted the back of […]
Posted: August 27th, 2006 under New York City, food, restaurants, museums, bridge.
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