May 17, 2012
Also Visit NY State Arts
Historic House
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972, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Manhattan
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy promote the best of French arts, literature and education to cultural and academic institutions across the United States, with a strong focus on contemporary arts.
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972, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Manhattan
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy promote the best of French arts, literature and education to cultural and academic institutions across the United States, with a strong focus on contemporary arts.
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Bronx
It is the Grand Concourse's grandest building, a broad limestone palazzo set back behind a wide grassy lawn between 166th and McClellan Streets in the Bronx. But the building, paid for by the somewhat mysterious Andrew Freedman, is not a mansion or a museum. It is a home for the elderly, and it has an unusual history. The 1924 building, the Andrew Freedman Home, operated by the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council, has its own signs of age, and of rejuvenation. - Excerpted from The New York Times No Longer Empty is curating a program of arts and culture events at the home during the spring and summer of 2012.
Manhattan
The Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation gave Angel Orensanz a house and its surrounding garden for the whole summer so he could share his creative imagination with island visitors.
The Orensanz Summer Museum follows the concept of such illustrious precedents like Henry Thoreau at Walden Pond and Leo Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana and the American Barbizon movement in the late 19th and early 20th century, followed by the constant flow of New York artists to become part of the Hamptons' bohemia.
The “compound” of the Orensanz Museum comes with a small lawn and a 30-foot-high poplar with a fabric sign that announces the domestic culture center. The summer museum will host al fresco meetings and discussions, at times scholarly and at times populist. The museum has scheduled a summer exhibition of Angel Orensanz drawings and sculpture-lights; poetry readings; high powered discussions on aesthetics and hermeneutics; intimate international video presentations and animated dialectical visions of urban trends and neighborhood struggles. For a detailed program, admission fees, subscription program and how to get to the island. please visit http://www.orensanz.org. The opening day is June 12, 2009.
For ferry schedule information, see www.gipec.org.
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Bronx
This historic house and museum in the Bronx has two rooms used for special events.
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Staten Island
The oldest restaurant on Staten Island, established 1921, is in a carriage house that was built circa 1850. The founder, Basilio Giovannini, was a cooper from the Piedmont area of Italy.
Basilio Inn was the gathering place for Italian immigrants from all over New York. It was the place where they would play bocce, make wine (and drink it), dance and crown Miss Basilio. Basilio Inn has retained the character that one would find in a countryside restaurant in Europe with its own vegetable garden, grape harbor and a bocce court.