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POLLYTALK FROM NEW YORK
By Polly Guerin
November 2, 2009
NEW YORK’S MELANGE OF CULTURAL EVENTS
In a world of cultural possibilities no other city than New York can be called the center of
fashion, attend a book launch, musicals and dramas or the mélange of events and not come away
so full of joie de vivre that the intoxication of culture makes me feel positively dizzy. Alas, one must
prioritize as each event tugs at our sensitivities. Here’s the scoop!!!
FASHION MEETS TECHNOLOGY IN ‘DREAMY TABLEAUX.’ Set in Bergdorf’s Fifth Avenue
windows it creates a provocative and subversive spin on a love story that mixes Adamo laptops
with a signature blend of Edwardian decadence, Asian mystery and rock n’ roll edginess with
Bergdorf’s fashions. Whew!!! Not to be missed. One window, called Web Master/Master the Web,
depicts a mannequin, caught in an elaborate spiderweb and grasping a black Adamo laptop laser
etched to resemble a spiderweb with Crystallized-Swarovski elements. One after another gapers
stand before the windows to see a trio of hoop-skirted-mannequins like Russian nesting dolls with
a laptop encrusted with large Swarovski stones. www.bergdorfgoodman.org.
BAUHAUS gets its due at The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, “Bauhaus 1919-1933:
Workshops for Modernity” on view November 8 to January 25, 2010. The Bauhaus school in
Germany----the most famous and influential school of avant-garde art in the twentieth century---
brought together artists, architects and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the
nature of art in the modern age. The students and faculty of the Bauhaus made the school the
venue for a dazzling array of experiments in visual arts that had a transformative effect on the
1920s and 1930s. The exhibit includes over 400 works, many on view for the first time in the U.S
including works by faculty members and well-known students including Marcel Breuer, Lilly Reich,
Anni Alberts, Joseph Albers and Gunta Stolzl to name a few and first director of the Bauhaus,
Walter Gropius. www.moma.org.
BACK TO SCHOOL at the PS. 1 Contemporary Art Center is “Robert Bergman: Selected
Portraits” on view till January 4, 2010, in Long Island City. In the exhibition of 24 large-scale color
portraits of everyday people Berman’s epic series of portraits documents the physical and
spiritual manifestation of Americans at the approach of the Millennium. Art historian Meyer
Schapiro wrote as follows, “Certain photographers---Robert Frank, as well as Robert Bergman,
come to mind---discover like poets, otherwise ignored qualities of the person and the
environment, and hidden moments of feeling, and present them to our entranced scrutiny---and
our meditation.” Visit PS 1, the Museum of Modern Art affiliate at 22-25 Jackson Ave. LIC, NY www.
ps1.org or call 718.784.2084.
SCANDIANAVIAN PERFORMANCE ART is on the move. Live Action New York 09 features in its
first edition some of the most important contemporary Scandinavian performance artists, like Roi
Vaara, Irma Optimist and Pekka Kainulainen to name a few, featuring the crème de la crème of
Scandinavian performance art in an intense and exciting event that is ephemeral, it has attitude,
its fleeting and it’s avant-garde. Don’t Miss Out. It’s Free. Friday, Nov. 6 and Saturday, Nov. 7
and Monday November 9. All performances at 7 PM. Scandinavia House, The Nordic Center in
America, 58 Park Ave. at 38th St. www.scandinaviahouse.org .
THE SECRET GIFT is a great read and an ideal holiday gift. Michael Landon Jr., son of the
Little House on the Prairie star, with Cindy Kelley have penned a new heartwarming story, The
Silent Gift published by Bethany House. This bittersweet story of hope in the midst of suffering
the story follows a devoted mother and her disabled son who is deaf and mute, trying to survive
the Great Depression, and the discovery of the boy’s unusual gift, the gift of prophecy. With
research balanced by story, Landon Jr. and Kelley weave a beautiful narrative of love and
enormous sacrifices that lingers long after the first page has been read. www.bethanyhouse.com
or call 800.877.2665.
Well here we are in November already, my, my how the year has flown but if it be known I’ve
been flitting about town taking in all these fabulous cultures. Ta Ta darlings! Fan mail:
pollytalk@verizon.net or website: www.pollytalk.com and please visit my blog: http://www.
fashionhistorian.blogspot.com and http://www.amazingartdecodivas.blogspot.net.
By Polly Guerin
November 2, 2009
NEW YORK’S MELANGE OF CULTURAL EVENTS
In a world of cultural possibilities no other city than New York can be called the center of
fashion, attend a book launch, musicals and dramas or the mélange of events and not come away
so full of joie de vivre that the intoxication of culture makes me feel positively dizzy. Alas, one must
prioritize as each event tugs at our sensitivities. Here’s the scoop!!!
FASHION MEETS TECHNOLOGY IN ‘DREAMY TABLEAUX.’ Set in Bergdorf’s Fifth Avenue
windows it creates a provocative and subversive spin on a love story that mixes Adamo laptops
with a signature blend of Edwardian decadence, Asian mystery and rock n’ roll edginess with
Bergdorf’s fashions. Whew!!! Not to be missed. One window, called Web Master/Master the Web,
depicts a mannequin, caught in an elaborate spiderweb and grasping a black Adamo laptop laser
etched to resemble a spiderweb with Crystallized-Swarovski elements. One after another gapers
stand before the windows to see a trio of hoop-skirted-mannequins like Russian nesting dolls with
a laptop encrusted with large Swarovski stones. www.bergdorfgoodman.org.
BAUHAUS gets its due at The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, “Bauhaus 1919-1933:
Workshops for Modernity” on view November 8 to January 25, 2010. The Bauhaus school in
Germany----the most famous and influential school of avant-garde art in the twentieth century---
brought together artists, architects and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the
nature of art in the modern age. The students and faculty of the Bauhaus made the school the
venue for a dazzling array of experiments in visual arts that had a transformative effect on the
1920s and 1930s. The exhibit includes over 400 works, many on view for the first time in the U.S
including works by faculty members and well-known students including Marcel Breuer, Lilly Reich,
Anni Alberts, Joseph Albers and Gunta Stolzl to name a few and first director of the Bauhaus,
Walter Gropius. www.moma.org.
BACK TO SCHOOL at the PS. 1 Contemporary Art Center is “Robert Bergman: Selected
Portraits” on view till January 4, 2010, in Long Island City. In the exhibition of 24 large-scale color
portraits of everyday people Berman’s epic series of portraits documents the physical and
spiritual manifestation of Americans at the approach of the Millennium. Art historian Meyer
Schapiro wrote as follows, “Certain photographers---Robert Frank, as well as Robert Bergman,
come to mind---discover like poets, otherwise ignored qualities of the person and the
environment, and hidden moments of feeling, and present them to our entranced scrutiny---and
our meditation.” Visit PS 1, the Museum of Modern Art affiliate at 22-25 Jackson Ave. LIC, NY www.
ps1.org or call 718.784.2084.
SCANDIANAVIAN PERFORMANCE ART is on the move. Live Action New York 09 features in its
first edition some of the most important contemporary Scandinavian performance artists, like Roi
Vaara, Irma Optimist and Pekka Kainulainen to name a few, featuring the crème de la crème of
Scandinavian performance art in an intense and exciting event that is ephemeral, it has attitude,
its fleeting and it’s avant-garde. Don’t Miss Out. It’s Free. Friday, Nov. 6 and Saturday, Nov. 7
and Monday November 9. All performances at 7 PM. Scandinavia House, The Nordic Center in
America, 58 Park Ave. at 38th St. www.scandinaviahouse.org .
THE SECRET GIFT is a great read and an ideal holiday gift. Michael Landon Jr., son of the
Little House on the Prairie star, with Cindy Kelley have penned a new heartwarming story, The
Silent Gift published by Bethany House. This bittersweet story of hope in the midst of suffering
the story follows a devoted mother and her disabled son who is deaf and mute, trying to survive
the Great Depression, and the discovery of the boy’s unusual gift, the gift of prophecy. With
research balanced by story, Landon Jr. and Kelley weave a beautiful narrative of love and
enormous sacrifices that lingers long after the first page has been read. www.bethanyhouse.com
or call 800.877.2665.
Well here we are in November already, my, my how the year has flown but if it be known I’ve
been flitting about town taking in all these fabulous cultures. Ta Ta darlings! Fan mail:
pollytalk@verizon.net or website: www.pollytalk.com and please visit my blog: http://www.
fashionhistorian.blogspot.com and http://www.amazingartdecodivas.blogspot.net.