A guest review by urban geographer Dr. David Craggs takes in Manhattan’s Skyscraper Museum. A jumping off point to explore the ever-changing city landscape. A Tale Of Two Cities Somebody once wrote that the 2000s was the greatest ever decade for skyscraper construction in history. That was true at the time, but not so now. […]
A review of the Morgan Library and Museum, a Midtown Manhattan gem. An oasis of outstanding objects: it’s amazing what a robber baron’s budget can achieve! J. P. Morgan And His Collection John Pierpont Morgan, known as Pierpont, was born in 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut. He was born into an influential family, and his education […]
A review of the South Street Seaport Museum, a ‘campus’ of sites in Lower Manhattan. Fascinating history, but the experience is somewhat hampered by ongoing post-Covid recovery. New York’s Hidden Historic Seafront: The South Street Seaport Museum I’ve been fortunate to go to New York a few times now. Generally tourism isn’t my primary purpose […]
A review of Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure, on at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in New York’s Chelsea art district. A very enjoyable exhibition with a unique point of view: just a shame about the price tag. A Major Basquiat Exhibition? Sign Me Up! My recent trip to Chicago and New York was a little delayed because… […]
A review of Matisse: The Red Studio, an interesting small-scale exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Back in New York, And Straight To MoMA After a long weekend in Chicago, I had an opportunity recently to spend a few days in New York. Art and culture were not the primary objectives of […]
I think I was a little dazzled while seeing this play, not by the big name draws in their Broadway debuts, or by the direction, but, not having seen any of Tom Stoppard’s plays previously, by his way with words. While I still have nothing to compare it to, this revival of The Real Thing […]
Egon Schiele had something of a moment in late 2014, which is perhaps somewhat earlier than expected given that the centenary of his early death will be in 2018. Nonetheless, it was my privilege to be able to see not one but two top class exhibitions on either side of the Atlantic, the first, Egon […]
There is always a danger in reviving a play about youth in which the setting plays such an important role that it will lose its relevance, but this does not seem to have happened at all to Kenneth Lonergan’s play, which premiered in 1996. Granted, its 1982 setting was already over a decade old when […]
Toulouse-Lautrec’s prints and posters are almost one and the same with what we imagine of fin-de-siècle Paris, and I don’t think it would be overstating it to say that some of his images have been reproduced ad nauseum. I thought that this exhibition did a good job of acknowledging our collective image of the Paris […]
As most critics who have reviewed this exhibition have remarked, the Jeff Koons retrospective is a pretty good farewell to the Whitney’s current building on Madison Avenue. This is the largest survey of one artist’s work staged by the museum, with works over five of six floors, and I would imagine also the most expensive […]
