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Here are some of sights:
Photos: ABG
How did you spending your long weekend?
Friday, June 3, 2011
Where the FIGAWI?
Post # 2 of 3 - "Where the FIGAWI?" We were on Nantucket for the Holiday Weekend. It was also the 40th Figawi Race weekend (Hyannis-Nantucket-Hyannis.)
Here are some of sights:
How did you spending your long weekend?
Here are some of sights:
How did you spending your long weekend?
Wacky Alpaci!
I was on Nantucket for Memorial Day Weekend. I snapped a few fun photos which I am going to post as three separate "themed" posts. Post #1 "Wacky Alpaci!"
Initially I thought that these were GIANT Llamas then someone (a small child, truth be told) informed me they were actually Alpacas (or is it Alpaci?)
Initially I thought that these were GIANT Llamas then someone (a small child, truth be told) informed me they were actually Alpacas (or is it Alpaci?)
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| 3 of 5 Alpacas (alpaci?) The MSPCA (on Crooked Ln.) is in the background. |
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| The other 2. I like how the brown one is peeking out from behind the white one. Their barn is in the background on the left (wht. bldg.) the MSPCA is on the rt. (grey/brn/shingled bldg.) |
Photos: ABG
Thursday, May 26, 2011
"Under a Latin Sky"
Now that the 2011 Kips Bay Designer Showhouse is closed we are all going into ID withdrawl! Here is the remedy: The Kips Bay Summer Cruise with Kips Bay Designers!
I'm sure you know already, but if you do not: The Proceeds go to support the wonderful Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club.
Please call for more information or tickets - 718-893-8600 ext. 245
Tickets start at $300
You can purchase one here
June 9, 2011
6:15 p.m. Boarding
7:00 p.m. Sailing
Pier 81
(West 41st St. @ the Hudson River)
Enjoy a luxury Cruise around Manhattan on a chartered Yacht, including cocktail, dancing, dinner, live entertainment and more as you admire truly breathtaking views of New York City.
They've Suggested Festive Attire
for Latin Dancing! Ole!
Please call for more information or tickets - 718-893-8600 ext. 245
Tickets start at $300
You can purchase one here
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Empire State of Mind
The Junior Committee of The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Cocktails Party to be held at The Empire Room in the Empire State Building May 26th 8-10pm. For tickets please contact Maryann Lauria (212) 233.5500 x216 or mlauria@nyspcc.org or click here.
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| Photo: GILT CITY New York |
The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the oldest charity of its kind in the United States, is dedicated to helping at-risk kids in New York City.
This is the quintessential New York gathering of young professionals and philanthropists, and it benefits the amazing work of The NYSPCC, one of the most admired child-protective organizations in the world.
This is the quintessential New York gathering of young professionals and philanthropists, and it benefits the amazing work of The NYSPCC, one of the most admired child-protective organizations in the world.
You are invited to step into the new Empire Room in the Empire State Building (through a new, private entrance!) to enjoy cocktails, appetizers and a silent auction at the “Empire State of Mind” benefit on May 26. (Donate a bit extra and gain access to “ESB After Dark” at the 86th floor Observatory, where a live jazz saxophonist will be accompanying the breathtaking sights of Manhattan until the wee hours.)
The Empire Room is a 3,500-square-foot lounge in the former post office space of the landmark building’s ground floor. The plush space (the creation of Mark Grossich, who also designed the Campbell Apartment in Grand Central Station) celebrates the iconic Art Deco heritage of the building with modern takes on 1920s decadence: mohair and velvet banquettes, and embossed-leather furniture.
Sources: GILT CITY New York & The NYSPCC
Sources: GILT CITY New York & The NYSPCC
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
MooT
I ran across this just in time for a rainy Memorial Day weekend at the beach house: The word game MooT!
My family loves Scrabble TM, crossword puzzles and puns (well I do!) and we all appreciate witty repartee so this sounded like a perfect game for us. There are free questions if you want to see what it is like and the user feedback is VERY enthusiastic. If you do order it let me know what you think.
(I was not paid for this post.)
My family loves Scrabble TM, crossword puzzles and puns (well I do!) and we all appreciate witty repartee so this sounded like a perfect game for us. There are free questions if you want to see what it is like and the user feedback is VERY enthusiastic. If you do order it let me know what you think.
(I was not paid for this post.)
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Are you a Dog or a Rabbit?
There's a great exhibit by the artist Ai Wei Wei in the fountain in front of the Plaza, it is made up of 12 amazingly detailed bronze sculptures of the heads of animals. They represent the animals in the Chinese zodiac
Up now through July 15, 2011
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| Click Photo to Enlarge Find the year of your birth That is your animal |
Did you notice someone has written Free Wei Wei on the sign?
See link to read about it.
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| Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Ram |
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| Rat, Ox, Tiger |
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| I'm a ram, what are you? |
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| Monkey, Rooster, Dog & Pig. I like the dog best, what about you? |
Up now through July 15, 2011
All photos of Zodiac Animals by ABG.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Rooms with a View
Current exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840)
Woman at the Window, 1822
Oil on canvas; 17 3/4 x 12 7/8 in. (45 x 32.7 cm)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie
By Sabine Rewald
“Everything at a distance turns into poetry: distant mountains, distant people, distant events: all becomes Romantic.” With these words, the German poet Novalis anticipated the appeal of one of richest motifs in the visual arts: the open window. Beginning with two sepia drawings by Caspar David Friedrich, images of windows—with or without human figures, starkly bare or draped with billowing fabric—filled up artists’ sketchbooks and portfolios and resonated through the art academies and annual exhibitions of Germany, Denmark, France, Russia, and the other northern countries.
In contrast to examples from earlier centuries, such as the celebrated works of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, the early nineteenth-century pictures usually show the windows straight on, with views seen through them—pastoral and alpine views, views of sea and sky or moon and clouds, and urban views of rooftops, steeples, shipyards, or the skyline of Rome, where so many northern artists went to complete their studies. Sabine Rewald’s informative and perceptive texts set these works in the context of their creators’ lives and careers, apartments and studios, families and professional circles. Following the motif from Friedrich’s sepia drawings in the early 1800s through the flowering of Romanticism to the midcentury emergence of Realism in the works of Adolph Menzel, Rewald provides a much-needed perspective on this important period in Europe even as the works themselves, gathered together here for the first time, offer pure visual pleasure.
Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840)
Woman at the Window, 1822
Oil on canvas; 17 3/4 x 12 7/8 in. (45 x 32.7 cm)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie
By Sabine Rewald
“Everything at a distance turns into poetry: distant mountains, distant people, distant events: all becomes Romantic.” With these words, the German poet Novalis anticipated the appeal of one of richest motifs in the visual arts: the open window. Beginning with two sepia drawings by Caspar David Friedrich, images of windows—with or without human figures, starkly bare or draped with billowing fabric—filled up artists’ sketchbooks and portfolios and resonated through the art academies and annual exhibitions of Germany, Denmark, France, Russia, and the other northern countries.
In contrast to examples from earlier centuries, such as the celebrated works of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, the early nineteenth-century pictures usually show the windows straight on, with views seen through them—pastoral and alpine views, views of sea and sky or moon and clouds, and urban views of rooftops, steeples, shipyards, or the skyline of Rome, where so many northern artists went to complete their studies. Sabine Rewald’s informative and perceptive texts set these works in the context of their creators’ lives and careers, apartments and studios, families and professional circles. Following the motif from Friedrich’s sepia drawings in the early 1800s through the flowering of Romanticism to the midcentury emergence of Realism in the works of Adolph Menzel, Rewald provides a much-needed perspective on this important period in Europe even as the works themselves, gathered together here for the first time, offer pure visual pleasure.
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