by Polly Guerin
March l7, 2008
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES: MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!!
What's so special about the Big Apple? My dear, I fear you mustn't be on the wavelength of the
glitterati. How could you ask such a banal question when it's obvious that the cognoscenti know
where to go. Why not invest in yourself and rev up your groove just to prove that you have the
smarts to make the social scene. Here are a few tips about goings on around the town in which
you live.
If in doubt about where to go in the Big Apple get hold of Chester Burger's large format book,
"Unexpected New York. It takes you to 87 New York places you never knew and remarkable
stories you've never heard before with 100 full-color pages. Mr. Burger, retired from Chester
Burger & Co, Inc. in 1988, the nation's first communications management consulting firm and in
1995 and the U.S. Government awarded him the Medal "for outstanding Service to the United
States. This consummate sleuth spoke recently at the Health Outreach program (2l2.746.4351).
For the book go to www.ibcsolutions.net/chesterburger
The International Asian Art Fair at a new venue, 583 Park Ave. at 63rd Street till March 19th, is
now in a building that was once a Christian Science Church. My pick of exhibitors is Stand 7,
Yabuuchi Satoshi, a Japanese Master of Contemporary Manga sculpture of mischievous child-like
images. (Manga is the Japanese word for comics and cartoons) Doji, a child of an ancient Chinese
hermit, with supernatural powers of longevity is just one of the 3-D sculptures that fascinated me.
Yauuchi explains, "I am not re-creating real-life children. The Doji children I create come from a
different world yet these sculptures convey innocence and wonder. Go to www.artmiya.com.
Unlike most Japanese ceramists, Kishi Eiko works without any ties to a formal tradition or trend,
Stand 26 "Rays of Light: The Intricate Ceramic Art of Kishi Eiko." She creates her own incredibly
intricate technigue called, saiseki zogan, or colored stone inlay. The artist explains, "My forms
have a sense of movement, the rhythm of Noh inspiration. I meticulously carve and tool these
sculptures with linear lines like the folds of ancient kimonos." Presented by the Joan B. Mirviss
gallery, 39 E. 78th St. www.mirviss.com.
Talk about a color revolution. Go no further than West 53rd Street. MOMA's "Color Chart:
Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today," through May 12, sponsored by Benjamin Moore, who else?
takes us on a colorful journey with works celebrating mass-produced color as a commercial
product and its impact on contemporary art: Warhol, Frank Stella, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert
Rauschenberg to name a few. This exhibit comes just in time when the color comeback is in full
swing with the fashion runways are parading brights. Obviously it's a joyful spring ahead. That's
right girlie, Black is dead this season. By the way it was Duchamp who coined the phrase
readymade. www.moma.org. If you want to learn more about color psychology go to
www.pollytalk.com and read Polly's color poetry.
Don't miss "Shaker Design: Out of This World" at The Bard Graduate Center for the studies of
the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, through June 15 with masterworks of Shaker furniture
made between l810-l860. Admission is a a steal at $3, seniors $2, so affordable you can't avoid
showing up to see commercial goods and works by contemporary designers influenced by Shaker
aesthetics.
Why weren't you there? The Great Designers symposium at the Fashion Institute of Technology
this past weekend brought in the likes of designers Anna Sui and Isabel Toledo to name a few, as
well as Hammish Bowles, Vogue's international editor-at-large and Andrew Bolton curator of the
Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fashion guru, Valerie Steele, chief curator of
The Museum at FIT had lively conversations with some of the stellar guests and capsulated The
Great Designers as only this font of fashion history can give us. The man behind the Red soles,
Christian Louboutin on April 9 shares the people, places and things that inspired the creative
process of shoe design, Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, D Bldg. RSVP 2l2.217.4585. I just love the
place, I taught at FIT for over 23 years, and my textbooks "Creative Fashion Presentations," and
The Stylist can be had through www.amazon.com.
Still can't get enough of Katherine Hepburn. Go to the NYPL for the Performing Arts, 30 Lincoln
Center Plaza Monday, March 31 to hear about The Lioness in Winter with Anthony Harvey who
directed Hepburn in the film, in Conversation with Foster Hirsch. Just show up 6PM.
On April 12th at 3PM, same place, hear Remembering Aunt Kat with Katherine Houghton and
Charlotte Moore.
Can't afford the pricey Algonquin Hotel's celebrity shows, but you can still hear the celebrated
songbird Barbara Carroll at NYPL singing songs from Tony Award-winning musicals related to the
exhibition: Writing to Character; Songwriters & the Tony Awards on April 24th at 6pm. Show up
early. www.nypl.org.
That venerable building Steinway Hall, 109 W. 57th St., stands as a musical treasure and the
world's most renowned piano landmark, and the showroom for the most distinguished piano
assortment from spinet to grand scale concert instruments. The ultimate designation for music
events Saturday, April l2 kicks off at l0 a.m. with a free film program. www.steinway.com.
The 12th Annual Lighthouse at the Met, "The Artistic Spirit" celebrates the new galleries for 19th
and early 20th-Century European paintings and sculpture at the Temple of Dendur in the Sackler
Wing, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, April 4 at 7PM with musicians, dancers,
painters and creative actors. www.lighthouse.org.
Who isn't concerned about the environment? Sound the Alarm: Landscapes in Distress is a must
see, through April 20th at Wave Hill West 249th St. and Independence Ave, Bronx, NY. The short
films April 5th and 6th, 11AM-4PM, feature environmental topics such as mining pollution, climate
change in the arctic and the destruction of the rain forest. The April 23rd llAM topic is Gardening
for the Future Walk. Reservations 718.549.3200x305. www.wavehill.org.
I wouldn't miss any of these fab events for a minute. Mark your calendar in ink and take a friend
with you. Cheers!!! We'll have a Great Time!!!
March l7, 2008
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES: MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!!
What's so special about the Big Apple? My dear, I fear you mustn't be on the wavelength of the
glitterati. How could you ask such a banal question when it's obvious that the cognoscenti know
where to go. Why not invest in yourself and rev up your groove just to prove that you have the
smarts to make the social scene. Here are a few tips about goings on around the town in which
you live.
If in doubt about where to go in the Big Apple get hold of Chester Burger's large format book,
"Unexpected New York. It takes you to 87 New York places you never knew and remarkable
stories you've never heard before with 100 full-color pages. Mr. Burger, retired from Chester
Burger & Co, Inc. in 1988, the nation's first communications management consulting firm and in
1995 and the U.S. Government awarded him the Medal "for outstanding Service to the United
States. This consummate sleuth spoke recently at the Health Outreach program (2l2.746.4351).
For the book go to www.ibcsolutions.net/chesterburger
The International Asian Art Fair at a new venue, 583 Park Ave. at 63rd Street till March 19th, is
now in a building that was once a Christian Science Church. My pick of exhibitors is Stand 7,
Yabuuchi Satoshi, a Japanese Master of Contemporary Manga sculpture of mischievous child-like
images. (Manga is the Japanese word for comics and cartoons) Doji, a child of an ancient Chinese
hermit, with supernatural powers of longevity is just one of the 3-D sculptures that fascinated me.
Yauuchi explains, "I am not re-creating real-life children. The Doji children I create come from a
different world yet these sculptures convey innocence and wonder. Go to www.artmiya.com.
Unlike most Japanese ceramists, Kishi Eiko works without any ties to a formal tradition or trend,
Stand 26 "Rays of Light: The Intricate Ceramic Art of Kishi Eiko." She creates her own incredibly
intricate technigue called, saiseki zogan, or colored stone inlay. The artist explains, "My forms
have a sense of movement, the rhythm of Noh inspiration. I meticulously carve and tool these
sculptures with linear lines like the folds of ancient kimonos." Presented by the Joan B. Mirviss
gallery, 39 E. 78th St. www.mirviss.com.
Talk about a color revolution. Go no further than West 53rd Street. MOMA's "Color Chart:
Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today," through May 12, sponsored by Benjamin Moore, who else?
takes us on a colorful journey with works celebrating mass-produced color as a commercial
product and its impact on contemporary art: Warhol, Frank Stella, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert
Rauschenberg to name a few. This exhibit comes just in time when the color comeback is in full
swing with the fashion runways are parading brights. Obviously it's a joyful spring ahead. That's
right girlie, Black is dead this season. By the way it was Duchamp who coined the phrase
readymade. www.moma.org. If you want to learn more about color psychology go to
www.pollytalk.com and read Polly's color poetry.
Don't miss "Shaker Design: Out of This World" at The Bard Graduate Center for the studies of
the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, through June 15 with masterworks of Shaker furniture
made between l810-l860. Admission is a a steal at $3, seniors $2, so affordable you can't avoid
showing up to see commercial goods and works by contemporary designers influenced by Shaker
aesthetics.
Why weren't you there? The Great Designers symposium at the Fashion Institute of Technology
this past weekend brought in the likes of designers Anna Sui and Isabel Toledo to name a few, as
well as Hammish Bowles, Vogue's international editor-at-large and Andrew Bolton curator of the
Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fashion guru, Valerie Steele, chief curator of
The Museum at FIT had lively conversations with some of the stellar guests and capsulated The
Great Designers as only this font of fashion history can give us. The man behind the Red soles,
Christian Louboutin on April 9 shares the people, places and things that inspired the creative
process of shoe design, Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, D Bldg. RSVP 2l2.217.4585. I just love the
place, I taught at FIT for over 23 years, and my textbooks "Creative Fashion Presentations," and
The Stylist can be had through www.amazon.com.
Still can't get enough of Katherine Hepburn. Go to the NYPL for the Performing Arts, 30 Lincoln
Center Plaza Monday, March 31 to hear about The Lioness in Winter with Anthony Harvey who
directed Hepburn in the film, in Conversation with Foster Hirsch. Just show up 6PM.
On April 12th at 3PM, same place, hear Remembering Aunt Kat with Katherine Houghton and
Charlotte Moore.
Can't afford the pricey Algonquin Hotel's celebrity shows, but you can still hear the celebrated
songbird Barbara Carroll at NYPL singing songs from Tony Award-winning musicals related to the
exhibition: Writing to Character; Songwriters & the Tony Awards on April 24th at 6pm. Show up
early. www.nypl.org.
That venerable building Steinway Hall, 109 W. 57th St., stands as a musical treasure and the
world's most renowned piano landmark, and the showroom for the most distinguished piano
assortment from spinet to grand scale concert instruments. The ultimate designation for music
events Saturday, April l2 kicks off at l0 a.m. with a free film program. www.steinway.com.
The 12th Annual Lighthouse at the Met, "The Artistic Spirit" celebrates the new galleries for 19th
and early 20th-Century European paintings and sculpture at the Temple of Dendur in the Sackler
Wing, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, April 4 at 7PM with musicians, dancers,
painters and creative actors. www.lighthouse.org.
Who isn't concerned about the environment? Sound the Alarm: Landscapes in Distress is a must
see, through April 20th at Wave Hill West 249th St. and Independence Ave, Bronx, NY. The short
films April 5th and 6th, 11AM-4PM, feature environmental topics such as mining pollution, climate
change in the arctic and the destruction of the rain forest. The April 23rd llAM topic is Gardening
for the Future Walk. Reservations 718.549.3200x305. www.wavehill.org.
I wouldn't miss any of these fab events for a minute. Mark your calendar in ink and take a friend
with you. Cheers!!! We'll have a Great Time!!!
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