BRUNCH - W 25th St

Weeks later, you will find yourself daydreaming about your brunch experience at Tipsy Parson. It’s just that good. The interior is sleek-yet-warm “vintage” New York. The vibe is stylish comfort. The “Mushroom Toast” is grilled potato bread, herb ricotta, sautéed wild mushrooms and scrambled eggs. If you haven’t been yet, go now because the exciting art on W 25^th St is the perfect cure for your inevitable post-meal food coma. 

Head over to Nancy Margolis Gallery for Kim Simonsson’s Ponytail. (Travel by way of W 21^st between 9^th & 10^th Aves.  It is one of the most beautiful blocks in the city.) Simonsson’s sculptures will rock your world, while submerging you deeply in his. His, by the way, is an incredible sculptural mash-up of Disney and Anime. My favorite is the ceramic girl jumping into the puddle of gold, but I want to give a major shout out to Jean D Arc, the girl on the pedestal blowing a metallic silver bubble. Super cool. 

Presenting a more realistic look at our world, Sze Tsung Leong gives us Cities at Yossi Milo Gallery. The exhibition is full of somewhat elevated, removed panoramic views of cities, towns, villages, and landscapes. You’ll be immediately drawn in, looking for the details and nuances, wondering about the huge variety of human activity contained within these ingeniously simplified worlds. It’s hard to tear your eyes away.

For one final jolt of stimulating art, stop in Pace Gallery and let yourself get sucked in to James Sienna’s paintings. If you don’t know anything about Sienna’s technique, you’ll find comfort and order in the precise patterns of his work. If you pick up the press release and learn a bit more about him, you’ll be wowed by his self-imposed rules and dedication to the variable quality of repetition. Sienna’s paintings are surprisingly small, and you can totally understand why they would be. One would go absolutely mad working too long on such complex sequences. Then again, there’s Sienna’s 17-foot-long Sequence I, a double-sided linear, geometric, hand-printed work, which can only make you wonder…  

Ingredients:

Venues: Nancy Margolis Gallery; Yossi Milo Gallery; Pace Gallery

Artists: Kim Simonsson; Sze Tsung Leong; James Sienna

Streets: W 25th

Eats:  Tipsy Parson

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