Culture For The Non-Cultured

Ah, just came back from visiting P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the museum in Long Island City, and I loved it! My favorite exhibits are interactive and whimsical and I had a ball.
There was James Turrell’s Meeting, a serene room with benches all around it and a perfect square cut through the ceiling. [...]

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Just got back from a guided tour of the Museum of Modern Art with Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup site). Great art to be seen and discussed; great people to meet.
Whenever I go to museums, I try to leave with at least 2 or 3 facts that I didn’t know before that [...]

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James De La Vega is an artist that tags New York’s sidewalks, doors, even the discarded mattresses you see below –with whimsical, inspiring little pics and murals.  He often signs his art with a fish and his name.
New York is a gritty city; De La Vega brightens it up.  (Picture thanks to the wonderful Dave [...]

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For obvious reasons, Fridays rock my world.  Even more than Saturdays, methinks.  There’s something about the anticipation of a free day to plan for that thrills me to no end. 
Tomorrow, a large group of Culture Vultures is going to see Metropolitan Museum of Art.  There’s a sculpture of a balloon animal on the roof!
Oh, and [...]

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As many of you know, for the past 2 years, I have organized a large social group in New York City called Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup. We attend cultural events around the city — theater, museums, walking tours, baseball games, and more — in groups of 20-60 people. Events are usually held 3-4 [...]

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Some of my favorite art just appears not in galleries, but on random street corners, like in the photo below.
According to the photographer, Dave Beckerman, “in the early morning light, these menus at the local Jackson Hole Burger joint look (to me) like an exotic flower.”
Don’t you agree?
(Picture is from Black & White Photos of [...]

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What do these 3 images have in common? They are images of polarities, or opposites. I’ve always loved pictures of opposites (one of the above is even mine).
There’s the big strong man, looking tenderly at his tiny, helpless infant (that I lifted out of the public domain at Creative Commons.)
There’s the tiny woman [...]

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