The First Presbyterian Church turns 300
“The interior of the edifice presents a novel and yet a very agreeable and impressive aspect. It is of the perpendicular Gothic Style, without columns to sustain the long extending […]
Category Archives: Things to See
A Free Press and Horace Greeley
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.” —Horace Greeley (1811–1872) Today is World Press Freedom Day. To highlight […]
The New York Botanical Garden, Spring 2016
“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, […]
Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday with Romeo and Juliet
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.” —the […]
Julius’, Where Gay Civil Rights Began
“The whole thing ended up in court, and the court decided well, yes, the Constitution says that people have the right to peacefully assemble and the state can’t take that […]
The Century Apartment Building
“A sophisticated essay in Art Deco design exhibiting a complex balance of horizontal and vertical elements.” — NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, its description of The Century during its 1985 landmark […]
New York’s Easter Parade 2016
In your Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it You’ll be the grandest fella in the Easter Parade I’ll be all in clover and when they look us over […]
Subway Art for “City Dwellers”
“Living and working in New York for 20 years undoubtedly helped me mature as an artist and develop a visual language.” —Mark Hadjipateras (1953– ) New York has rewarded Mark […]
Stained Glass Windows of St. Patrick’s
“The noblest temple ever raised in any land to the memory of Saint Patrick, and as the glory of Catholic America.” —Newspaper praise for St. Patrick’s Cathedral when it was […]
The Temple of Dendur: Colorful Again
“I am dying, Egypt, dying.” —Marc Antony (83 B.C.–30 B.C.) from 1606’s Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) By contrast, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) something is […]
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