Exhibit shows the notorious faces of old New York
Its name suggests high tea with Edith Wharton, but the Gilded Age — the period just before and after the start of the 20th century — was far from golden. Old New York, it seems, was rife with social...
View ArticleSee the show, hit the shops: Creative gifts at NYC museums
You’re probably feeling malled out by now, and maybe a tad resentful — all that holiday shopping’s left you with very little free time. We can fix that. Why not track down the perfect gift —...
View ArticleMacy’s Flower Show, New York Pops and more weekend events
Stems in the city After a cruel NYC winter, the botanical bonanza of the year is back — an English garden right in the heart of Midtown. Starting Sunday, the Macy’s Flower Show promises more than 50...
View ArticleOff-the-wall gifts from New York’s great museums
You’ve probably polished off the leftover turkey and are nursing a Black Friday headache — but far from finished your holiday shopping. Well, buck up: There’s finally an excuse to catch up on all the...
View ArticleWithout New York there would be no superheroes
They don’t call this Gotham for nothing. New York is the home of superheroes, and always has been. The genre was born here back in 1938 with the publication of “Action Comics” No. 1 — Superman’s first...
View ArticleSkip the toy store — museums have the best holiday gifts
This holiday season, do unto yourself as you would do unto others — and gift yourself. Instead of trudging through department stores for the “perfect present,” escape into the nearest museum — then...
View ArticleThe summer’s hottest tour is a 400-year-old book
The summer’s hottest touring act is drawing crowds in all 50 states and travels under the tightest security. No, it’s not Beyoncé — it’s a centuries-old book. Published in 1623, Shakespeare’s First...
View ArticleGet an up close look at the weirdest campaign gear ever
Just when you think our national discourse has sunk to a new low, it helps to remember the Richard Nixon toilet seat. That red, white and blue byproduct of the 1972 presidential campaign just went on...
View ArticleLove tattoos? This exhibit has 300 years of ink
Dorothy Parker had one. So did Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill’s mother and my father, a Navy man. I’m talking tattoos, the vivid subject of a New-York Historical Society show that features objects,...
View ArticleArt lovers, this is Memorial Day Weekend’s must-see show
It was supposed to be “the war to end all wars.” It wasn’t. And by the time the smoke cleared in November 1918, four years after the fighting began, over 17 million soldiers and civilians lay dead....
View ArticleHow a struggling photographer became the ‘Duchess of Carnegie Hall’
When Editta Sherman first moved with her family to studio No. 1208 above Carnegie Hall, she was a 37-year-old struggling photographer, a scrappy naif compared with the building’s more-glamorous...
View ArticleNew photo exhibit shows MLK and RFK as you’ve never seen them
Fifty years ago this week, America lost Martin Luther King Jr. to an assassin’s gun, only to see Robert F. Kennedy cut down two months later. While their deaths have long linked them in the public’s...
View ArticleMuseum exhibit proves shoes can be high art
Nearly everyone, in every culture around the world, wears some kind of slipper, sandal or heel to shield the soles of their feet from the earth. But an exhibition opening April 20 at the New-York...
View ArticlePotterheads are swarming this exhibit like it’s Comic Con
What, you may wonder, does Harry Potter have to do with the New-York Historical Society — or even the city itself? Well, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the New York publication of “Harry...
View ArticleAlexander McQueen’s iconic looks get nostalgic sendoff
Get an up close, last look at some of the late, great Lee Alexander McQueen’s most iconic and controversial designs at a pop-up exhibition at the New-York Historical Society Feb. 15-17, before they are...
View ArticleNew photo exhibit shows MLK and RFK as you’ve never seen them
Fifty years ago this week, America lost Martin Luther King Jr. to an assassin’s gun, only to see Robert F. Kennedy cut down two months later. While their deaths have long linked them in the public’s...
View ArticleMuseum exhibit proves shoes can be high art
Nearly everyone, in every culture around the world, wears some kind of slipper, sandal or heel to shield the soles of their feet from the earth. But an exhibition opening April 20 at the New-York...
View ArticlePotterheads are swarming this exhibit like it’s Comic Con
What, you may wonder, does Harry Potter have to do with the New-York Historical Society — or even the city itself? Well, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the New York publication of “Harry...
View ArticleAlexander McQueen’s iconic looks get nostalgic sendoff
Get an up close, last look at some of the late, great Lee Alexander McQueen’s most iconic and controversial designs at a pop-up exhibition at the New-York Historical Society Feb. 15-17, before they are...
View ArticleHow Danny Driscoll, NYC’s ‘most murderous reprobate,’ finally met his end
As leader of the notorious Whyos gang, Danny Driscoll was fearless and unflappable. After he was sentenced to death in 1886 for shooting his friend, the prostitute Bridget “Beezy” Garrity, Driscoll...
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