Place portrait / New York City, United States
A bookshop with a garden.
Stained glass and green lamps lead from shelves of books to a small garden with flowing water.
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Notes and encounters.
Place portraits, exhibition notes, and ways of looking. From New York, looking outward.
36 notes
Itinerary / Hudson Valley, United States
A Hudson Valley notebook.
Gardens, historic houses, art, and river views form a longer excursion beyond New York City.
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Place portrait / St. Louis, United States
A night among artworks.
A red billiard table, a bedroom, textiles, and suspended sculpture bring art into the rooms of a stay.
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Place portrait / Vienna, Austria
A stroll through the Kunsthistorisches.
A soaring dome, red galleries, paintings, and marble sculpture shape a short visit to Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum.
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Itinerary / Baltimore, United States
A train to Baltimore.
Libraries, historic rooms, and museum collections punctuate a rail trip to Baltimore.
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Itinerary / Philadelphia, United States
A train to Philadelphia.
A rail journey leads to reading rooms, gardens, sculpture, and museum interiors in Philadelphia.
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Place portrait / New Canaan, United States
Autumn at the Glass House.
Autumn trees, a circular pool, and the Sculpture Gallery’s glass roof bring architecture into the landscape.
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Place portrait / Vienna, Austria
Books beneath a painted sky.
Painted ceilings, tall shelves, globes, and marble sculpture fill the Austrian National Library’s State Hall.
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Place portrait / New York City, United States
Evening light at The Met.
Blue evening light, reflections, and gallery views record a different atmosphere at The Met.
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Itinerary / Ireland and Northern Ireland
Ireland, from cliffs to country roads.
A road-trip film moves through Ireland and Northern Ireland, following coastlines, stone ruins, woodland, and mountain roads.
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Place portrait / New York City, United States
Looking inside the Hispanic Society.
A courtyard sculpture, tiled stairs, and ceramics introduce the Hispanic Society Museum & Library in New York.
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Exhibition note / New York City, United States
Magritte and Les Lalanne.
An unexpected fish, sculptural animals, and painted skies meet in the gallery rooms of In the Mind’s Garden.
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Exhibition note / New York City, United States
Moomin at the library.
A character appears on Brooklyn’s Central Library facade; inside, figures and colorful displays bring the Moomin world into the building.
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Place portrait / Vienna, Austria
Objects and arcades at the MAK.
An arcaded hall opens onto furniture, decorative objects, and richly patterned rooms at Vienna’s MAK.
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Place portrait / New York City, United States
Romance on the shelves.
Colorful spines, open books overhead, and a rolling ladder frame a visit to The Ripped Bodice in Brooklyn.
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Place portrait / Vienna, Austria
Rooms and portraits of Sisi.
A reconstructed carriage interior, an elaborate dress, portraits, and a floral bathroom trace an encounter with Empress Elisabeth.
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Place portrait / Helsinki, Finland
Under glass in Helsinki.
Broad water-lily leaves, dense greenery, and a curved conservatory roof shape a visit to Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden.
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Place portrait / New York City, United States
Water and glass in Brooklyn.
Water lilies, flowering trees, and conservatory roofs reflect the changing color of Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Place portrait / Montague, United States
A bookshop by the river.
Books, timber, and a purple chair beside tall windows. Outside, water runs past a red mill building.
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Exhibition note / New York, United States
A Marvel gallery interlude.
Paintings, projected patterns, and objects in display cases turn familiar screen characters into a gallery encounter.
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Place portrait / United States
Among the Grand Tetons.
Lake water, pine trees, a small timber chapel, and mountain meadows form a portrait of the Grand Tetons.
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Itinerary / New York City, United States
An hour at The Met.
A little time. A few things to look at closely.
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Exhibition note / New York City, United States
Lee Krasner, on her own terms.
An artist’s practice, a working space, and the freedom to begin again.
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Itinerary / New York, United States
New York beyond the guidebook.
A longer film follows art and cultural spaces across New York, from white gallery rooms to ornate townhouse interiors.
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Itinerary / New York, United States
A New York gallery notebook.
A twelve-stop film gathers sculptural furniture, suspended forms, paintings, and unexpected creatures across New York galleries.
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Exhibition note / New York, United States
Objects across the ages.
An ancient torso, carved stone, and richly colored furniture share a sequence of quiet gallery rooms.
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Itinerary / New York, United States
An October museum notebook.
Two versions of a New York museum roundup collect exhibition rooms, objects, and reasons to look more closely.
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Place portrait / New York City, United States
Rooms at the Frick.
Dark timber, gilded detail, and skylit galleries: two films move through the rooms around the collection.
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Place portrait / London, United Kingdom
Rooms beneath a dome.
A small dome lights a dense arrangement of casts, sculpture, and architectural fragments in a London museum.
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Exhibition note / New York City, United States
Royal carpets at The Met.
Pattern, color, and scale come into focus in two films about Louis XIV’s royal carpets at The Met.
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Place portrait / United States
September in Yellowstone.
Turquoise water, pale mineral edges, steam, and distant views give Yellowstone a vivid palette.
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Exhibition note / New York City, United States
Sienese bronzes at the Frick
A Frick exhibition visit connects Sienese Renaissance bronzes with the architecture and color of their display.
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Place portrait / Boston, United States
Stained glass in Boston.
Colored glass, murals, flags, and polished stone shape a short architectural portrait of a Boston civic interior.
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Place portrait / Gloucester, United States
Stone, courtyard, and water.
Arched windows look onto a green pool in a castle-like courtyard; beyond it are galleries, books, and stone walls.
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Exhibition note / New York City, United States
Tiffany, from drawing to light
Tiffany drawings and stained glass reveal design ideas behind luminous architectural details at The Met.
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Place portrait / Namwon, South Korea
Water and white walls.
A museum framed by water, architecture, and landscape.
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