My Urban Sherpa

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art through 2011–May 14, 2012

MoMA is located at 11 West 53rd Street, west of 5th Avenue. Any visit to MoMA should include a stop at their wonderful book shop, and gift shop.

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The Museum of Modern Art is open Mondays.

The American Wing at The MET

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street.

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Tornado Alley at AMNH

The American Museum of Natural History is located at Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192

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Sunday at the ballet with George, NYCB, January 22

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Ocean’s Kingdom at NYCB

Ocean’s Kingdom (2011), commissioned score by Paul McCartney; arranged by John Wilson and Paul McCartney and orchestrated by Andrew Cottee at The New York City Ballet. For more information,…

Beyond Planet Earth at AMNH

The American Museum of Natural History is located at Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192

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Chip Kidd talks Bat-manga at MOCCA

Thursday, January 12th, at the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art – MoCCA – Chip Kidd pulls back the curtain on Bat-Manga!, the 1966 Bat-mania phenomenon that first took Japan by storm. A weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English until the debut of Chip Kidd’s Bat-Manga! in 2008.

Now for the first time ever in the US, original artwork and lavish cover art from the Batman-manga comics are on display at MoCCA, along with vintage era-specific memorabilia and toys.

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More than just a dazzling novelty, Bat-Manga! is an invaluable, long-lost chapter in the history of one of the most beloved and timeless figures in comics.

Chip Kidd is the four-time Eisner award-winning author and designer of Batman Collected, Batman Animated, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schultz, and Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross. He is the author of The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners, from Simon & Schuster. From 2003 through 2007 he was the founding art director at Vertical Inc., the Japanese-American publisher, responsible for the design of Osama Tezuka’s epic Buddha, among many other manga titles. He has also done extensive design work for authors Koji Suzuki and Haruki Murakami.

All Wheeldon at NYCB

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2012 NYC Marathon Applications open at noon

The New Year is here and the ING New York City Marathon 2012 application opens today at 12:00 noon.

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Maurice Sendak Remembers at The Jewish Museum

For the annual Hanukkah exhibition, the renowned artist and illustrator Maurice Sendak chose a group of Hanukkah lamps from The Jewish Museum’s preeminent collection. Sendak’s work is characterized by a push and pull between beauty and sorrow, light and darkness. His art is triggered by memories and is also their repository.

When going through the collection, the sheer number and variety of lamps struck a nerve, underscoring Sendak’s deep, lifelong sense of loss at the destruction of the prewar world of his Eastern European Jewish parents. Having movingly evoked that world in his drawings, he surprised himself by mostly avoiding its rich visual language when choosing lamps. “I stayed away from everything elaborate. I kept looking for very plain, square ones, very severe looking,” he explained. “Their very simplicity reminded me of the Holocaust.” The lamps Sendak finds most compelling and poignant are those that “go right to the heart,” whose “beauty is contained.”

The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street.

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