POLLYTALK FROM NEW YORK
by Polly Guerin
May 11, 2009
NEW YORK’S A CULTURAL BARGAIN
In these murky modern times you mustn't even spend a dime. Sample culture of every sort
and become a cultural sport. Venues FREE at Forbes, be Seduced at FIT, Ernesto Neto at the
Armory and Moving Images at America’s Society. Here’s the scoop!!!
March down to the Forbes Galleries at 62 Fifth Avenue (12th St.) and see the thousands of
toy soldiers spanning over two centuries or sail away FREE as a breeze with the toy boats from
the 1870s to the l950s. Awaken the child within you and delight in the museum’s antique
Monopoly game and note its various incarnations. Fine art and high cultural installations are
worthy of your investigation, too. Located in the first floor of the Forbes Magazine Building. No
charge. Check the opening schedule: 212.206.5548.
If fashion is your passion sashay over to The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
at 27th Street and Seventh Avenue. My Alma Mater (been a professor there for 23 years). It’s
one of the best fashion shows in town and FREE for the viewing of the latest take on erotic
romanticism, hot to trot and ably called “Seduction.” See how women have been killing
themselves to be fashionable wearing confining contraptions of whalebone, laced up corsets to
torture the body into shape with the insidious crinoline. Seduction with curator Coleen Hill
explores the historical significance of seductive fashion from the l8th to the present: June 1 and
June 15, 6-7 in the Textile History Gallery.
Find yourself and the kids under hundreds of yards of translucent material at the Park
Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street on where artist, Ernesto Neto, suspends a
gigantic canopy from the Drill Hall’s lattice-work truss, spanning 120 feet wide and 180 feet long.
Magnificent, aromatic ‘fabric stalactites’ descent 60 feet to embrace a vast labyrinth of
passageways and rooms. The first commissioned art installation, ‘Anthropodino’ is a large scale,
interactive work. Until June l4th. Armory members free at all times. FREE only on Family Arts Day
May l6 from 12pm-8pm. www.armoryonpark.org.
Talking about unusual exhibitions FREE for the viewing are the outdoor screenings on a
moving truck equipped with a video projection that will promote a dialogue with diverse
communities such as Harlem and the Bronx. All the pieces, produced by the Rio de Janeiro artists
Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg invite reflection on the poetic potential of the moving image as
a critical tool for contemporary thinking. The joint public art works delve into the relationship
between ethics and aesthetics, art and politics and invite individual interactions. May to August 1
at Americas Society, 680 Park Ave. at 68th St. T: 212.249.8950. www.amercas-society.org.
Ta Ta darlings!!! New York’s A Bargain…FREE…for the viewing…just leave your chair and
get there. Remember you heard all about it in PollyTalk on the Big Apple News Network. Only in
New York, my friends, only in New York. I’d love to hear from you. Keep in touch. Fan mail goes
to pollytalk@verizon.net or www.pollytalk.com.
by Polly Guerin
May 11, 2009
NEW YORK’S A CULTURAL BARGAIN
In these murky modern times you mustn't even spend a dime. Sample culture of every sort
and become a cultural sport. Venues FREE at Forbes, be Seduced at FIT, Ernesto Neto at the
Armory and Moving Images at America’s Society. Here’s the scoop!!!
March down to the Forbes Galleries at 62 Fifth Avenue (12th St.) and see the thousands of
toy soldiers spanning over two centuries or sail away FREE as a breeze with the toy boats from
the 1870s to the l950s. Awaken the child within you and delight in the museum’s antique
Monopoly game and note its various incarnations. Fine art and high cultural installations are
worthy of your investigation, too. Located in the first floor of the Forbes Magazine Building. No
charge. Check the opening schedule: 212.206.5548.
If fashion is your passion sashay over to The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
at 27th Street and Seventh Avenue. My Alma Mater (been a professor there for 23 years). It’s
one of the best fashion shows in town and FREE for the viewing of the latest take on erotic
romanticism, hot to trot and ably called “Seduction.” See how women have been killing
themselves to be fashionable wearing confining contraptions of whalebone, laced up corsets to
torture the body into shape with the insidious crinoline. Seduction with curator Coleen Hill
explores the historical significance of seductive fashion from the l8th to the present: June 1 and
June 15, 6-7 in the Textile History Gallery.
Find yourself and the kids under hundreds of yards of translucent material at the Park
Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street on where artist, Ernesto Neto, suspends a
gigantic canopy from the Drill Hall’s lattice-work truss, spanning 120 feet wide and 180 feet long.
Magnificent, aromatic ‘fabric stalactites’ descent 60 feet to embrace a vast labyrinth of
passageways and rooms. The first commissioned art installation, ‘Anthropodino’ is a large scale,
interactive work. Until June l4th. Armory members free at all times. FREE only on Family Arts Day
May l6 from 12pm-8pm. www.armoryonpark.org.
Talking about unusual exhibitions FREE for the viewing are the outdoor screenings on a
moving truck equipped with a video projection that will promote a dialogue with diverse
communities such as Harlem and the Bronx. All the pieces, produced by the Rio de Janeiro artists
Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg invite reflection on the poetic potential of the moving image as
a critical tool for contemporary thinking. The joint public art works delve into the relationship
between ethics and aesthetics, art and politics and invite individual interactions. May to August 1
at Americas Society, 680 Park Ave. at 68th St. T: 212.249.8950. www.amercas-society.org.
Ta Ta darlings!!! New York’s A Bargain…FREE…for the viewing…just leave your chair and
get there. Remember you heard all about it in PollyTalk on the Big Apple News Network. Only in
New York, my friends, only in New York. I’d love to hear from you. Keep in touch. Fan mail goes
to pollytalk@verizon.net or www.pollytalk.com.
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