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The Eight-Day Week

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The Eight-Day Week: July 6-13

Wednesday, July 6 Curb Appeal Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm may be our favorite fish-out-of-water tale ever, and one of the main reasons we still subscribe to HBO (that and True Blood). It’s like seven seasons of that scene in Annie Hall where Alvy Singer goes out west and tries coke. (Ah-choo!) Now the Read More

At The Mostly Shuttered Neue Galerie, The Clocks Run On Time

The Neue Galerie's permanent collection is stuffed with lovely things. It has cafe chairs that can't be sat on, cabinets that can't be opened, and coffee cups which have been dry for decades. But in these galleries, where time seems to have stopped in 1933, the clocks are still ticking. 

The Neue's Otto Dix spectacular ended Read More

Art Calendar

Young Art

There's nothing quite like gazing at an Impressionist exhibit to the mellow sound of "Mommmm, can we go yet?" Any parent who has tried to instill love of art and culture into children knows it can be a challenge. Luckily, many New York City museums have special programs aimed for children.

 

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At the Frick, a Focus on the Collector as Art History

Inge Reist’s father was not interested in the subject of money. A medievalist in the comp lit department at Columbia, he reserved a “certain disdain for business and the stock market,” according to his daughter, and preferred instead to spend his time thinking about more meaningful things. “I think,” Ms. Reist said, “it was just Read More