Tag Archives: New York

Literary Walk (Central Park)

Posted on May 16, 2017 by zjb

Those would be Sir Walter Scot, Robert Burns, and Fitz Greene Hallek. I’ve never paid them much mind. But I got caught in the view of the trees and had some time to kill on my way towards an appointment … Continue reading →

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(Vital Forms) Art Swarms (East Harlem)

Posted on May 15, 2017 by zjb

Some of the best art in New York City is  up around and about in East Harlem from two separate but I imagine closely related projects, the East Harlem Monument Art Project  (2015) (here) and Los Murals Hablan Project (here)  (2013). Their … Continue reading →

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The Future of Subway Art (2nd Avenue Line)

Posted on May 7, 2017 by zjb

Public art is in many ways more interesting than art in the galleries and museums. A case in point is the new 2nd Avenue subway line (the Q line) opened in January of this month. It’s actually not much of … Continue reading →

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Unsentimental Hawk (Riverside Park)

Posted on April 15, 2017 by zjb

On my own with the dog out late sunny Friday afternoon an hour or so before sundown and Shabbat for a walk in Riverside Park. I stopped to watch the Red-Tail. It’s April now, that point in the season when … Continue reading →

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Jews, Germans, Women and the Spiritual in Art in America (Creating a Modern Guggenheim)

Posted on March 16, 2017 by zjb

They won’t do the ethnic tagging at the Guggenheim, but I will. Why now, Visionaries: Creating A  Modern Guggenheim, this big exhibition of the museum’s holdings organized to show the history of its founding visionaries and mission. Originally created as … Continue reading →

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Gargoyles (Riverside Church)

Posted on January 11, 2017 by zjb

These gargoyles are way up the tower of Riverside Church, facing south. They are very hard to see with the naked eye. The one way at the top has what seems to have a racially defined modernist African look, in … Continue reading →

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Striped Church (Harlem)

Posted on January 5, 2017 by zjb

The techno-color lines of the Greater Refuge Temple stand out on the corner of Adam Clayton Powell and 124th Street. It is also known as the “Mother Church” (Headquarters) of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ. If I’m getting … Continue reading →

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(Norms) Smoked Fish Atonement (Upper West Side)

Posted on October 10, 2016 by zjb

They used to sprinkle blood on the insides of the Tabernacle tent on Yom Kippur. Today, the  Upper West of New York prepares at Zabar’s for the break-fast to the Day of Atonement, buying up all the salty, smoked fish. … Continue reading →

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(Red & White) Churches & Synagogue (Greenpoint)

Posted on September 25, 2016 by zjb

The other week I stumbled across these red-brick and white brick churches and a synagogue in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. They are well preserved historical structures that are still-functioning religious institutions. The buildings reflect national and religious origins that … Continue reading →

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Porn in the City (Public Technology)

Posted on September 15, 2016 by zjb

In retrospect, the words of the promotional are hysterical. The internet hubs are big sidewalk monoliths. Kind of great, in theory at least. Unfettered wifi and internet. But what were they thinking? Clearly the urban planners don’t know much about … Continue reading →

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