Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? Van Cleef & Arpels makes Fifth Avenue bloom, two new … Read more
Like many people, 25-year-old Jane August needed to find something to do after she was laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I need to leave the house,” she recalled thinking. “I need to feel some cultural enrichment that is not in my bed watching Netflix.” So now, she’s on a mission to visit every museum … Read more
No boys allowed! A pricey exhibit meant for women visitors only — titled “Ladies Lounge” and created by artist Kirsha Kaechele — has led to a formal complaint against Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) after a man was reportedly denied entry to the show. But Kaechele made an appropriate — and memorable … Read more
Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? A new see-and-be-seen hotel in Tribeca, the ultimate sexy-surfer men’s … Read more
What about the poster for “Little Miss Sunshine”? LIPPERT This is a daring and exciting poster because of all the negative space. She chose to essentially not use two-thirds of the poster and have it be a bright school bus yellow that’s pushing down on the family, and they’re all composited together into this running … Read more
Welcome to the most exclusive end zone ever, Super Bowl superfans. A new exhibit at The Paley Center for Media features artifacts from the biggest spectacle in American sports –including the stunning Vince Lombardi Trophy and all 57 team rings from each winning squad. The show, “Beyond the Big Game,” highlights more than 150 iconic … Read more
The first big game was almost lost to history. On Jan. 15, 1967, the NFL-AFL showdown later known as Super Bowl I kicked off at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Led by coach Vince Lombardi and MVP quarterback Bart Starr, the Green Bay Packers dominated the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, during a lopsided affair that … Read more
That’s a lot of ch-ch-ch-ch-change. A handwritten lyric sheet for David Bowie’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” and “Suffragette City” has hit the auction block, potentially fetching up to $126,000, the BBC reports. The two tracks are featured on Bowie’s 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.” The sheet, which includes … Read more
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan has slithered into the top spot as home to the largest snake collection in the world. Oregon State University recently gifted the UM Museum of Zoology 45,000 specimens of reptiles and amphibians. Over 30,000 of those were snakes, which almost doubled the school’s research collection and put … Read more
Call it the McMet. The original Golden Arches museum in Des Plaines, Illinois, may have shuttered in 2017, but there’s still a place to get your vintage McMemorabilia fix. Enter the so-called First Original McDonald’s Museum, an unofficial gallery located in San Bernardino, California, where Dick and Mac McDonald opened the first-ever McDonald’s in 1940. … Read more
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is being rock solid about this. The former WWE star revealed on Instagram Saturday that he has requested “improvements” to his wax figure that was recently unveiled at the Grevin Museum in Paris. “I knew my boy [Jefferson Jr.] had this Rock wax statue in his roasting crosshairs,” Johnson, 51, captioned a … Read more
Lend him an ear. The post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh provides posthumous insight into his life and work as part of a new exhibit that draws on advanced, generative artificial intelligence technology. A virtual avatar of the artist answers questions from visitors to “Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: The Final Months” at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. … Read more
In February, Gen X darlings Pavement headlined for a crowd of craft beer drinkers that spilled across a muddy lawn outside one of the most influential art museums in the world. Earlier, the thumping bass of sex-positive electro-punk icon Peaches drew the scene away from experimental dance shows and an installation wall of anatomically accurate … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Could there be a future for a world revolving around Swiftie fandom? Based on the durable staying power of Taylor Swift’s now international ‘Eras Tour,‘ we think we’re … Read more
“Sex and the City” glam, “Sesame Street” glee and “Taxi Driver,” all housed under one roof. Only in New York! The Museum of the City of New York, which is celebrating its centennial anniversary, explores the city’s pop culture over the past century in its new exhibit, “This Is New York: 100 Years of the … Read more
The art world is up in arms, from collectors to curators – donors to docents. They are all furious about a host of major museums selling works by some of America’s best-loved artists. And one of the most contentious of these sell-offs is happening this week at the venerable Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan. … Read more
Seven words from Karl Lagerfeld adorn a doorway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s sumptuous new exhibit honoring the late, legendary designer: “Fashion does not belong in a museum.” Andrew Bolton, who masterminds the New York museum’s blockbuster Costume Institute shows each year, chuckled as he led a visitor through that doorway this weekend, a few days before … Read more
It’s the first Monday in May and you know what that means: it’s fashion’s biggest night out. The Met Gala, an annual fund-raising benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showcases the pinnacle of themed haute couture on its red carpet each year. From opulent to outlandish, notable figures and the Hollywood elite dress to impress … Read more
These Marvel messages make a lot of Spidey-sense for fans of Queens’ own web slinger. Hundreds of kids have written letters addressed to “Peter Parker” and his comic book alter ego, “Spider-Man,” and mailed them to the real life Forest Hills address of the fictional super hero ever since the location was revealed in 1989. … Read more
Welcome to the house of wack. A Polish wax museum is being melted online over astonishingly bad facsimiles of Prince William and Kate Middleton — with users comparing the prince to “Hugh Grant after 20 Jagerbombs.” While the figures have been around for some time, they recently came to light via a TikTok showcase with … Read more