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Sunday, January 18, 2026

Gingerbread Houses p2

This year’s display of gingerbread houses at the Museum of the City of New York is wrapping up today, so I thought I’d post a second set of photos.

I’m not sure why someone decided to build a power plant, but it does have some cool structures.

Could anything be more NYC than Santa stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn bridge?

Maybe Broadway dancers?

The Bronx Botanical Garden is a favorite of course.

Here’s a link to the pics from this year’s Van Gogh sunflowers exhibit.

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2025/09/sunflowers-nybg.html

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2025/11/nybg-sunflowers-2.html

And one of their waterlilies.

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2025/10/water-lilies-nybg.html

But probably what hit me hardest was this one of the Christopher Street subway station complete with homeless person. Sadly, I have often seen them at this stop.

The Westside tennis club in Forest Hills is another NYC classic.

And you can never go wrong with a lighthouse.

But this Santa caught my eye because it reminded me of the window display I did for the bookstore at Northeastern while I was in graduate school. Someone asked me if I could make Santa Black and I said “Sure.” (He is a fictional character after all. 😉)

All in all, I enjoyed the exhibit so much, that I am thinking about going again next year if the stars properly align. Fingers crossed.

Here’s the link to the first set…

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2025/12/gingerbread-houses.html

Enjoy!

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Gingerbread Houses

The Museum of the City of New York holds a yearly gingerbread contest.

Begun in 2022, it invites people to submit their own takes on NYC in gingerbread.

After reading about the yearly event, I tried to check it out once before,

but ran into what appeared to be a bomb scare that closed down not just the museum but also 5^th Avenue.

(The museum is on 5^th Avenue and 103^rd Street.)

I had better luck this time. 😊

This year’s theme was “Iconic New York.” The exhibit runs until January 19^th, 2026.

The sculptures were extraordinary, and the entire room had a delicious gingerbread scent.

While some of the entries tackled typical gingerbread themes.

Others focused more on the icon theme. Like this award winner. 😉

Cheers!

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Banksy Museum

In case you missed it, a Banksy Museum has opened on Canal Street.

It features representations of some of his most popular work.

Apparently, they hired a bunch of graffiti artists who did their best to faithfully reproduce the work.

They had their work cut out for them since many of the pieces had been destroyed.

But using photographs and intuition they were able to really capture the feel of his work.

Much of it is of course political. Or at least social commentary.

The pieces reproduced on the walls make excellent selfie stations.

So, I was surprised that it wasn’t more crowded.

I got the biggest kick out of what I believe must have been an intentional juxtaposition of the inside work with some authentic NYC graffiti on the adjacent building.

The ticket taker mentioned that the museum would be open for at least four years so there is plenty of time to check it out and visit Wo Hop for lunch.

Sticking with the contemporary art theme - here are some pics from the Warhol exhibit at the Whitney in 2019…

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2019/03/warhol-at-whitney.html

Cheers!

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Rocking the Rubin

The Rubin Museum of Art is closing in October 2024.

At that point they will begin loaning their collection to museums throughout the world for special exhibitions rather than having a permanent location.

Since I had never been there, I decided to check it out before it closed.

The museum founded by Donald and Shelley Rubin,

features the Himalayan Art that they collected beginning in the 1970’s.

Shortly after the museum opened in 2004, in the location previously occupied by Barney’s Chelsea, the Dalai Lama came to visit and thank the couple for their efforts.