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    miniature wonderland

    On your next trip to Hamburg, in the north of Germany, don’t miss the world’s largest model railway. This miniature city boasts a number of computers and people working in the background to keep it running. It’s built using three floors of an old warehouse. Great for kids and adults alike.
    Miniature Wonderland.

    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 [...]

    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 [...]

    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 [...]