Planet of the Grapes

83rd Street and Fifth Avenue There are two types of modern bathrooms. One is the ideal modern bathroom equipped with tinted glass stalls, ergonomic toilets that clean your privates and designer sinks and lights. Then there is the bathroom that prevails in the modern age: peeling walls, graffiti, broken toilets, and that familiar aroma from [...]

83rd Street and 5th Avenue Part four of our Met tour takes us to the Far East, which according to the museum map is to the far east (rimshot). A great amount of thought appears to have been put into laying out their collections. Among this collection is a traditional Japanese garden where one can [...]

83rd Street and 5th Avenue The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the cornerstone of New York City art museums and home to one of America’s finest collections. The building sports a classical facade: tall columns, broad friezes and a general majesty to make you feel insignificant, but in that romantic way, unlike the glass phalluses [...]