“This is my poem to New York City” McGinley says.

Thank you Time Out New York for reminding us that even though we may not be in Maine or even the Rockaways, we can still find clambakes, steamed whole lobster and crispy clam rolls right here in NYC.

Seaside Eats: Best summer seafood dishes in NYC

Mimi Sheraton, The New York Times restaurant critic during the 1970s and 1980s, sets out to find the best of the city’s classic foods like pizza and pastrami.

Lost, Then Found, New York Classics

As the title suggests, David Zwirner’s latest exhibition is a group show of artists who work at the gallery.

Curated by Brooklyn-based Rawson Projects, whose co-directors James Morrill and Chris Rawson also work at David Zwirner, the show bridges the emerging and established gallery scenes, two sides of the art world that are commonly thought of as isolated from one another. In turn, it plays on notions of inside and outside, art and work, center and periphery, while at the same time testifying to the interconnectedness of the New York art world and the relationships that exist between new and established artists and galleries.

PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE
Curated by Rawson Projects
July 11 – August 10, 2012

David Zwirner Gallery
519 West 19th St

You’ve seen their videos on our website and books in our rooms. Now let us take you inside Scott Newman and Marc Santo’s newest edition of Revel In New York.

In what the NY Times calls “freewheeling” and “a unique way of exploring the city”, Revel offers an authentic and personal look at our city through the eyes of notable artists, architects, chefs and filmmakers. The pocket-size guidebook is not typical — along with interviews and full page pictorials each subject shares personal recommendations for where to go and what to do.

The newest edition, Vol III, features many interesting people including costume designer Christian Joy, nightclub promoter Todd Pendu, chef Marcus Samuelsson and legendary photographer/filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg. Recommendations span the whole city including the Williamsburg, Brooklyn beauty shop Miomia, Ubu Gallery on 59th St, Maysles Cinema in Harlem, and Omen in Soho, which Schatzberg calls “a Japanese Elaine’s with good food”.

With contributions by past Revel subjects including Rolling Stones and AC/DC tour photographer Michael Halsband (Vol II), famed designer Jim Walrod (Vol I) and chef and TV host Eddie Huang (Vol II), Revel is a must read for curious travelers and locals alike.

Yes, that is Vincent Gallo

Times Square hasn’t always been the safe and corporate friendly “Disneyland” it is today. Yes in it’s not-too-distant history the area was filled with b-boys, pimps, prostitutes and trannies, all of which have been captured by and seen in the new book The Forty Deuce: The Times Square Photographs of Bill Butterworth.

The collection of candid portraits from the early eighties depicts everyone who defined the neighborhood, from the spandex-clad sex workers to the hip-hop crews decked out in tracksuits and sneakers. Bill wasn’t an outsider the scene around 42nd St, he was one of them. He made a living selling his medium-format portraits, and in the process created a record of a time and way of life that the people walking around Times Square right now probably can’t imagine.

Prints from the book as well as an exhibition of never-before-seen shots are on view at the powerHouse Arena from June 12 through July 1.

Abbie Hoffman, Yippie, New York, September 11, 1968, undated

Allen Ginsberg, poet, New York December 30, 1963, 1963

Allen Ginsberg's family

Andy Warhol, artist, New York, August 29, 1969, 1975

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view

An exhibition of Richard Avedon’s legendary photographic murals and related portraits are on exhibit at Gagosian Gallery. His visionary depictions of couture changed fashion in magazines and his commanding portraits of public figures were among the most venerated in the world.

In his large-scale murals and the smaller, related portraits of the 1960s and 1970s, Avedon sought to depict the spirit of the times. The transgendered Candy Darling and the naked Taylor Mead testify to the provocative countercultural behavior of the Factory. The spirit of political rebellion is embodied by the Chicago Seven mural, as well as the individual photos of writer Jean Genet, Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn, and former turf gang-turned-human rights group, the Young Lords. The expanding definition of the American family is represented by the mural of the Ginsbergs, while earlier images of Allen in nude embrace with his partner Peter Orlovsky, were found to be too shocking for most publications in 1963. Finally, the war administrators—the Mission Council—are juxtaposed with victims of the war: Vietnamese survivors of napalm attacks. Powerful and dynamic, Avedon’s images became icons of their embattled times that resonate for the present and future.

Richard Avedon
Murals & Portraits
Gagosian Gallery
May 4 – July 27, 2012

Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari for Toilet Paper Magazine, Untitled
Thursday, May 31 to Friday, June 29, 2012
Billboard next to the High Line at West 18th Street

Sonnabend Gallery, 536 west 22^nd Street

There are others and, New York being New York,  one may judge quality by the number of people on line. A few to note: Milk Truck Grilled Cheese, Kimchee Taco, Comme Si Comme Ca.

Beer in a bag seems to get by the local authorities.

Venus Over Manhattan, a new exhibition space, opens on May 10 with the exhibition À rebours.

The exhibition takes its title from Joris-Karl Huysmans’ 1884 anti-novel “À rebours” known in English either as “against the grain” or “against nature.” This tale of fin-de-siècle decadence tells the story of the Duc Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric aristocrat who recoils from the manners and values of conservative Parisian society and flees to the countryside to immerse himself in art collecting and exotic fetishism.

À rebours at Venus over Manhattan explores the notion of “against the grain” through a selection of more than 50 works including African fetishes. The artists represented range from Odilon Redon – the favorite of the book’s protagonist – to Henri Fuseli, Gustave Moreau, Felicien Rops, Franz von Stuck, Lucas Samaras, William Copley, Jeff Koons, Carlo Mollino, Andy Warhol, Glenn Brown, Salvador Dali, Walter Dahn, David Hammons and Bernard Buffet, as well as Jeni Spota and Gavin Kenyon.

À rebours
Venus Over Manhattan
May 10 − June 30, 2012
980 Madison Avenue
3rd Floor
(between E 76th and 77th Streets)

Fame, drag queens and the male figure are common elements between the works and interests of photographer Jeremy Kost and Andy Warhol.

This exhibition, Of An Instance, will consist of a selection of works by Kost that include his signature Polaroid collages, videos and a new series of silkscreen paintings, exhibited in dialogue with a selection of works from The Andy Warhol Museum’s collection that will be selected by the artist and include Warhol’s large format Polaroids: self-portraits as well as celebrity portraits.

Kost and Warhol both traverse the subcultural terrain of nightlife and parties, sharing an
insatiable interest in celebrities, drag queens and beautiful men. Jeremy Kost, Of An
Instance will reveal the artist’s ability to uncover intimate aspects of both celebrated
and unknown characters, and explore the idea of façade and identity as seen in his
subject’s personae.

Of An Instance
May 5 – 31
150 11th Ave
(at West 21st St.)