The Thursday, May 8 New York Sun carried my preview piece on the soon-to-open exhibition on "Catholics in New York, 1808-1946" at the Museum of the City of New York.
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My "Abroad in New York" column for Thursday, May 8, was on the role and legitimacy of preservation in a dynamic, innovating city, with particular emphasis on landmarks controversies involving two Greenwich Village institutions, St. Vincent's Hospital and New York University.
On Saturday, May 10 at 2pm, Wilhelmena Kelly and I will co-lead a walking tour of endlessly fascinating--and in parts heart-stoppingly beautiful--Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The tour is sponsored by the Brooklyn Historical Society.
My May 1 "Abroad in New York" column in The New York Sun was on all the new construction around Cooper Square, including new buildings by Thom Mayne, Fumihiko Maki, and Gwathmey Siegel.
My article on the past and future of the Museum of the City of New York appeared in The New York Sun of Monday, April 28.
My Thursday "Abroad in New York" column in the April 24 New York Sun was about the underrated architect Dwight James Baum and a new Acanthus Press book on his work, which includes several beautiful houses in Riverdale and Fieldston as well as the West Side Y on W. 63rd St.
My review of "Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard," at Adelson Galleries (19 E. 82nd St.) through June 6, appeared in The New York Sun of Thursday, April 24.
My "Abroad in New York" column in The New York Sun of Thursday, April 17, was about the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, on West 23rd Street, the spiritual home of New York's French-speaking Catholics--and the church where Edith Piaf married Jacques Pills in 1952. The archdiocese has said the church is going to be closed.
I reviewed "Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger," at the American Folk Art Museum, in The New York Sun of Thursday, April 17.
This Saturday at 2pm I will lead a walking tour of the wonderful neighborhood of Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. It meets at Cortelyou Road and East 16th Street (Q train--a k a "Brighton Line"--to Cortelyou Road station), and costs $15 ($12 for members of the Municipal Art Society). The walk will last about two hours. Juan Camilo Osorio, GIS analyst, planner, and all-around good guy with the Municipal Art Society's Planning Center, will provide a brief introduction explaining MAS's "Imagine Flatbush 2030" project. Go here for the MAS listing (scroll down a bit). Go here for the Ditmas Park Blog's mention of the walk.
