The obvious advantage of the US rental housing market is that you always move into a freshly painted apartment. In 99% of cases, the landlord — the person renting out the apartment — repaints the entire place with white paint before new tenants move in. It is efficient and practical in the American way, and…
There is one photograph of New York that almost everyone who has studied photography even a little knows. And yet, it is almost impossible to recognize the city in it. It is shown during the first year of almost every photography program, printed in art history textbooks, and presented by good tour guides on walks…
What I like about New York is that you can see art literally everywhere — and in the most accessible formats. It looks as if someone drew this with lipstick right in the subway underpass:
The 92NY cultural community center in New York is known for its educational programs, exhibitions, concerts, children’s and family activities, and interest clubs. But above all, it is a space for meetings and live lectures with prominent figures. In the center’s halls, you can hear world opinion leaders, authors, actors, and entrepreneurs, often in an…
I recently moved to a new neighborhood in New York, so I have been actively looking around during my walks. And I noticed the most fashionable building in the area: a 23-story tower made of beautiful rough board-formed concrete (this is when concrete is poured into wooden formwork so that the texture of the wood…
As they say, New York City has everything. Even the most unexpected things, which are the complete opposite of the dense forest of concrete and glass skyscrapers, can be found here. Golf clubs, for example! Chelsea Piers Golf Club is an opportunity to play golf right in the heart of Manhattan. Technically, of course, it…
In mid-February, I visited Christie’s auction house in New York for the first time. I admit that I went there with the naive hope of winning a lot at auction someday, even if it had to be in my next life. But something else turned out to be a much more pleasant surprise. Christie’s operates…
In New York, there is a peculiar thing that visitors do not get used to immediately: the best exhibition in the city on a particular Tuesday evening may very well be in a commercial gallery rather than a museum. And you can get in for free, without a ticket, a queue, or the need to…
Gagosian is one of the largest commercial contemporary art galleries and, according to the Financial Times, one of the most influential art dealers in the world. The gallery has 15 exhibition spaces in seven countries, more than 300 employees, its own publishing house with hundreds of books published, and a quarterly magazine. Admission to all…
David Zwirner is one of the four leading mega-galleries of contemporary art in the world, alongside Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and Pace. In Chelsea, David Zwirner occupies several buildings. Three of them stand next to each other on West 19th Street: 519, 525, and 533, while another is located one block away, on West 20th…
