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Overlooking Columbus

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The Time Warner Center overlooking Columbus overlooking the traffic circling around Central Park. Headquarters of Time Warner and the studios of CNN. A world of its own with luxury condos, a five-star hotel, a concert hall, a shopping mall, a fitness center, I don’t know how many restaurants and a Whole Foods supermarket.

Some residents don’t ever have to leave the premises, I would imagine.

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Columbus Circle in Blue

October 4th, 2016

A spot of very instagramable art

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Courtesy of Marlborough Gallery, with the kitchen of Nobu Fifty Seven providing a fittingly urban backdrop.

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JACQUES LIPCHITZ, Mother and Child, 1949, Bronze
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MANOLO VALDÉS, Dama a Caballo B1, 2012, Bronze
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MANOLO VALDÉS, Reina Mariana, 2005, Bronze
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MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ, Walking Figures, 2009, Bronze
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TOM OTTERNESS, Cone Fixing Cylinder (large), 2014, Bronze

40W 57th Street

October 1st, 2016

The time is nigh…

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… and so it has been since end of August. It was then that some gorgeous, huge, perfectly rounded pumpkins made their annual front raw appearance in their thousands, taking position on shelves in- and outside grocery shops and supermarkets. Although they are supposed to be picked up in October, they couldn’t wait to mark the beginning of Halloween Season and start the countdown to every child’s favourite spooky night. No matter the sweltering heat of the last days of August, the magic ”pompions” were there to remind that the time is nigh.

Will and Fred went to the barn.
They got a pumpkin.
The pumpkin was large.
The pumpkin was yellow.
The boys cut the top off.
They cut the seeds out.
They cut four holes in the pumpkin.
They put a candle in the pumpkin.
The light shone out.
The boys said, “See our Jack-o’-Lantern.”

Narrative from a turn-of-the-century schoolbook, Victoire and Perdue’s The New Century First Reader via urbanlegends.

October 22nd, 2016