April 2025 City Notes

CITY NOTES

CURATED BY PATRICIA GREENE ISEN

Happy April!

Wow! Spring has sprung....a bit with rain showers but the daffodils are coming up and my husbands favorite forsythia has flourished. He loves the poem by William Wordsmith , "I wondered lonely as a cloud" a family favorite! ( Thomas & Charlie are your laughing??)

In this months CityNotes I have have started with one of the more exciting stories which is the reopening and expansion of existing museums! I can't wait to see the newly opened Frick (official opening was last night!) as well as the long standing anticipation of the opening of the Studio Museum.

There are so many art openings this month I could have gone on and on. Im hopeful I am giving you a diverse group of artists to enjoy.

My most valued and personal obsession this month are the design and antique stores focused on interiors and the home. This area for me is a constant journey and exploration to find what's new. I love researching the artists from different eras and learning about something new in the interior world.

I've added some fun restaurants....I'm most consumed with the new Pura Vida in the city! I love them in Miami and Im thrilled they made it to New York.

I would have had my head in the sand if I didn't include all of the new Private Clubs that are infiltrating the city. No matter your style or personal vibe there is a new private club to suite you. Enjoy perusing the ones I have chosen for you to get a tasting of.

Enjoy the month!

Please be safe!

Much Love to you & your families,

xoxoxoxox

Patty

MUSEUM OPENINGS

THE FRICK
1 East 70th Street
The Frick

I don't know about you but I already bought my tickets! I can't wait! The Frick Collection will reopen in April 2025, following the renovation and enhancement by Selldorf Architects of its historic Fifth Avenue home. The landmark occasion will invite visitors to experience the museum’s permanent collection anew, with its iconic masterworks reinstalled in restored spaces on the first floor, along with rarely exhibited and recently acquired works shown in a new suite of galleries on the mansion’s second floor, open to the public for the first time.

The Frick’s inaugural season will feature a slate of special installations and exciting public programs throughout the opening months in its revitalized buildings. These include a special commission by sculptor and ceramicist Vladimir Kanevsky ( my personal fave!) of porcelain flowers that pay homage to the floral arrangements made for the Frick’s original opening, in 1935. In late April, the Frick will introduce the Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium with a weeklong music festival featuring both classical and contemporary works. And in June, the museum’s new first-floor special exhibition galleries will be inaugurated with Vermeer’s Love Letters, which continues the Frick’s tradition of focused presentations that re-examine masterworks from its permanent collectioN

STUDIO MUSEUM
144 West 125th Street
The Studio Museum

I cant wait for the long anticipation of the brand new enhanced Studio Museum! Undertaken as a public-private initiative in partnership with the City of New York, the new 82,000-square-foot building will be incredible, designed by Adjaye Associates in collaboration with Cooper Robertson. The museum has lived throughout a five-decade history of innovative and impactful exhibitions and programs, while also providing exceptional new spaces to elevate the Museum’s service to artists, audiences, the uniquely vibrant Harlem community, and the world of art.

The Studio Museum first opened its doors in 1968 in a rented second-floor loft at 2033 Fifth Avenue, just north of 125th Street. In 1979, the Museum secured the offer of a new home in the very heart of Harlem: the six-story Kenwood Building at 144 West 125th Street. Constructed in the early twentieth century as a furniture store with offices above, the building had been the site of an exhibition organized by Romare Bearden in 1966 for the Harlem Cultural Council and was owned at the time by the New York Bank for Savings.

NEW MUSEUM
235 Bowery
New Museum

In November 2022, the New Museum broke ground on a 60,000-square-foot expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas.

Since its founding over 45 years ago, the New Museum has been a site of experimentation and a hub for new art and new ideas, where risk-taking and discovery are encouraged and supported.

Founded in 1977 in a temporary space on Hudson Street, the New Museum has continued to act nimbly to present art that serves as a catalyst for dialogue between contemporary artists and the public. In 2007, the New Museum opened its first purpose-built, flagship building at the terminus of the Bowery and Prince Street, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA / Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.

ART

Cy Twombly
GAGOSIAN
980 Madison Avenue
January 23–March 22, 2025
Cy Twombley

The exhibition of Cy Twombley includes paintings, a sculpture, and works on paper. The presentation opens on January 23, 2025, across two floors of the galleries at 980 Madison Avenue. Organized in association with the Cy Twombly Foundation, it includes key bodies of work from 1968 through 1990, including pieces that have never been shown before and loans from the Twombly family.

The installation on the sixth floor features a series of paintings that Twombly made from 1968 through 1971, representing a more austere approach than do the canvases of the prior decade.

PIERRE BELLOT: ZEPHYER
HENRY 56 STREET
105 Henry Street
Through April 27, 2025
56 Henry Street

Welcome to Henry 56 , One of the the galleries with tremendous buzz. I was walking by the day they opened with my good friend Keith and we poked our heads in. The artist, Pierre Bellot (b. 1990, Paris) lives and works in Paris, France. He graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and was a member of the French Academy in Madrid, at Casa Velázquez in 2019-2020. Solo exhibitions include at 56 Henry, New York and Art : Concept, Paris, among others. Group exhibitions include at Collection Lambert, Avignon; Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin; among others.

Alec Soth: Advice for Artists
SEAN KELLY
475 Tenth Avenue
New York NY 10018
Tuesday-Friday, 11:00am-6:00pm
Saturday, 10:00am-6:00pm

Alec Soth
March 7 - April 18, 2025

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Alec Soth’s fifth exhibition with the gallery, Advice for Young Artists which presents a curated selection of images from Soth’s recently completed body of work of the same name. Photographed during visits he made to twenty-five undergraduate art programs across the country from 2022 to 2024, the resulting pictures, interior studies, still-lives, and self-portraits depict Soth engaging with his subject while also reflecting, obliquely, on his life as an artist.

Jack Whitten : The Messenger
MOMA
Mar 23–Aug 2, 2025
Jack Whitten

SO EXCITED to see this..... Truth be told...I have always had a soft spot for Jack Whitten since the end of 2017. Robert and I had picked out a painting we were going to buy and loveed and within the weeks after choosing the painting...he passed away and we were told that they would not sell us the painting any longer....... He is a very special artist.

Jack Whitten was born in Bessemer, Alabama, amid the violence of the segregated South, he joined the Civil Rights movement, then made his way to New York in 1960. There, he decided to become an artist. Through his exploration of materials and tools—from new paints to Afro-combs and electrostatic printing—Whitten invented art-making techniques that were the first of their kind. Through his confrontation with racial prejudice and technological change, he made art matter in a world in turmoil. This retrospective is the first to span all six decades and every medium of Whitten’s innovative practice, and features more than 175 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that illuminate his singular artistic journey.

Emma Webster: That Thought Might Think
Petzel Gallery
520 W 25th Street
March 7 – April 12, 2025
Emma Webster

I have loved her from the first show I saw of her work . Emma Webster paints in incredible ways!

She was born in 1989 in Encinitas, California, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated with her BA from Stanford University in 2011 and received her MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2018.

That Thought Might Think is Webster’s first solo exhibition with Petzel. The show marks Webster’s solo debut with the gallery and will be on view through April 12, 2025, at 520 West 25th Street. These new works are Webster’s largest to date, and depict expansive, revelatory vistas of genesis and apocalypse. Painted amid the Los Angeles fires, her two paintings offer a front row seat into dramatic, fantastical maquettes of rupturing landscapes. Morphing light, space, and scale, Webster speaks to the precarity of the natural world and the role of artifice.

FAVORITE VINTAGE HOME STORES

SOMERSET HOUSE
10-25 48th Avenue
Long Island City
Open Mon - Thurs by Appointment Only
Open Friday 10am - 5pm to the Public
The Somerset House

Beyond Chic! Alan Eckstein began Somerset House as a retail space that housed a growing collection of vintage furniture and collectible items sourced from past interior design and staging projects. The retail space quickly evolved into a gallery and studio.
Somerset House is influenced by different design movements and eras that range from Italian and Danish Modern to hints of Baroque and Primitive. We are drawn to pieces and combinations that are unusual while standing the test of time.

MAGEN H
54 East 11th Street
(Between University and Broadway)
Monday - Friday 10AM - 6PM
Saturdays by appointment only
Magen H

For years I have admired and respected Magen H! I have always looked to this gallery for direction and exquisite taste.Hugues Magen has been ahead of his time forever! This is always a favorite stop for me in the village and at all art fairs he attends. Since 1997, Magen H has pioneered revolutionary and significant design in sculpture, decorative arts, architecture, and ceramics.

With special emphasis given to French post-war designers.Exhibiting works in craft mediums (clay, metal, wood, silicon and aluminum), the gallery seeks objects that transcend form and function.

DIENST + DOTTER
411 Lafayette Street
Dienst + Dotter 1st Dibs

Another dream like experience is that of Dienst + Dotter Antikviteter which specializes in Scandinavian and Northern European antiques, paintings and objects from the 17th through the 21st Century. Dienst + Dotter Antikviteter is a reflection of owner Jill Dienst’s lifetime of passionate collecting for her own homes and pays homage to her early career influences. Before launching Dienst + Dotter Antikviteter in 2005 Jill spent decades at some of the finest public and private institutions in the art, antiques and design world. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Didier Aaron, Inc. and time with Jacques Grange’s design studio all helped frame her unique eye and appreciation for the finest of art and design. Operating from a 6,000 square foot gallery space in NYC’s Noho neighborhood on Lafayette Street, Dienst + Dotter Antikviteter reminds us that we can and should live with antiques and mid-century masterpieces in a fundamentally modern way.What a treat! receiving their annual "catalogue" is amazing...the care to detail and ultimate presentation is a beauty to behold.

1950 Gallery
44 E 11th St, New York, NY 10003

Monday- Friday 10 AM–6 PM
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed
1950 Gallery

In 1985, Anthony DeLorenzo was the pioneer of midcentury French design by presenting the very first Jean Prouvé & Serge Mouille exhibition in the United States at the Wooster Street location in New York.

Since then, 1950 Gallery/ Alberto Aquilino has continued its commitment to the collector, the architect and designer to offer authentic works by Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, Serge Mouille, Isamu Noguchi and George Nakashima, contemporary French ceramicist Marianne Vissiere and artists Cat Loray & Clement Borderie.

FOOD

PURA VIDA MIAMI IN NYC
65 Bleecker St
25 Kent Avenue Brooklyn
Pura Vida

Wow! This is so exciting! My friend Lori has been bringing me to Pura Vida in Miami for the last 5+ years . Always something I have looked forward to. Now this establishment has come to New York. I went with my sone last week and just the delivery men alone were crowded around the entrance....

Pura Vida Miami stands has been the premier wellness and lifestyle brand with locations in Florida and has been transforming the way people eat since its establishment in 2012 by Founder Omer Horev in South Florida.

Pura Vida Miami has become a beacon of health-conscious living, offering a diverse menu of nutritious and delectable dishes. Omer & Jen Horev, the husband-wife duo behind Pura Vida Miami, have meticulously curated a menu that harmonizes nutritious and indulgent offerings. Their guiding principle is simple: they only serve food they would proudly feed their children, using only the highest-quality clean ingredients.

Ha's Snack Bar
297 Broome St

The rotating menu at Ha’s, on the Lower East Side, modulates between Vietnam and France but mostly reflects whatever the chefs, Sadie Mae Burns-Ha and Anthony Ha, decide they want to eat that day or week. And what they want to eat is both freewheeling in concept and precise in execution. Theirs is singular, game-changing talent.
You may already know this. Since 2019 the couple have drawn a loyal following for their roving pop-up, Ha’s Đặc Biệt. (“Đặc Biệt” loosely translates as “house special” in Vietnamese.) Ha’s Snack Bar has been packed since its debut in December, with little self-promotion beyond a January post on Instagram announcing that it had already been open for a few weeks. The tiny room, as quaint and charming as a Paris bistro, doesn’t even have a complete kitchen — just a few portable cooktops, a rice cooker, a small fridge and a combination oven originally from a Wawa store in Philadelphia.

Radio Bakery
GREENPOINT
PROSPECT HEIGHTS
Radio Bakery

Their daily production is devoted entirely to their walk in customers. All on a first come first serve basis.

All croissant pastries (besides specials) are on the counter between 7:30-8:00AM along with their breakfast focaccias and sandwiches. They put out some more focaccias in the late morning at 10AM. Lunch sandwiches come out at 11AM.

Most pastries are sold out by noon or earlier. Breakfast focaccias usually sell out by 10AM. Sandwiches will sometimes sell out by 1-1:30PM on their busiest days, which are usually Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. They close up once they are sold out of everything.

QUICK! hurry up and get in their in the morning!

Gitano
PIER 17, SEAPORT
Accepting Preview Reservations
Gitano NYC

The South Street Seaport is adding a behemoth, multi-level restaurant this month, replacing a Momofuku group spot.

The Grupo Gitano group has destinations in Tulum and Dubai and they are opening a permanent location of their modern Mexican pop-up Gitano this month. The new restaurant opens on the Seaport on Pier 17.

It’s taking over three locations in the Seaport, including what had been Momofuku Ssäm Bar, which shuttered in 2023. The result will be a vast 14,000 square-foot, two-story space that includes the main dining room with 30-foot ceilings and the second floor with the club. l.

Its coming...not sure how it will be but i always love yummy Mexican!

NEW PRIVATE CLUBS

SAN VINCENTE BUNGALOWS AT THE JANE HOTEL
115 Jane Street

I am loving the subtly chic nature of the renovation of the Jane Hotel. The club is beautiful. I have been a few times and I really LOVE IT!

San Vicente West Village is the brainchild of Jeff Klein, a businessman with a long track record in hospitality, who opened San Vicente Bungalows Los Angeles in 2018.

In the 1990s, Mr. Klein bet that hotels would be to that decade what nightclubs had been to the 1980s.

In 2004, Mr. Klein spent $18 million to buy the dilapidated Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles. It went on to become the town’s premier canteen for moguls and movie stars (think: Jennifer Aniston, Jeff Bezos, George Clooney) and, for several years, it was the site of Vanity Fair’s famous Oscars party.

Mr. Klein also teamed up with Vanity Fair former editor chief, Graydon Carter, on the Monkey Bar.

Rose Uniacke, who is still one of my favorite designers from the UK is a a star! Rose was hired help Mr. Klein refashion the interiors.Rose Uniacke has styled the interiors of homes David Beckham and the art dealer David Zwirner. her taste is out of this world! Our lights in our foyer are from her.....

CHEZ MARGEAUX
403 West 13th Street

This is Chez Margaux, the private members club in the heart of the Meatpacking.Inspired by the elegance of Paris in the 1930’s and London’s renowned nightlife culture. In partnership with Chef Jean-Georges, Margaux offers a unique blend of highly designed spaces. Their main dining room, highlighting modern French cuisine; a Japanese-inspired lounge for more casual dining; and a caviar-and-cocktails bar that transforms into an intimate nightclub, Gaux Gaux just to name a few. Peppered throughout the club are a myriad of private spaces to tuck yourself into or to host special dinners or drinks gatherings of all sizes.

Maxime's
848 Madison Avenue

I am so excited for this to open! I have peeked inside when I was with my friend Christel looking at art the other day and the space looked divine! Exactly as one would predict. English chic! Maxime's is a new private members' club, created by Robin Birley, owner of 5 Hertford Street and Oswald's in London, and is located on Madison Avenue, in the former Westbury Hotel.The club is two-stories and 12,000-square-feet. Named Maxime’s, after Birley’s aunt Maxime Le Bailly, Comtesse de La Failaise, a British model in the 1950s who became an “underground” film star in the 1960s. She was also known a cookery writer and "food maven".
This should be a lot of fun and if you live on the upper east side.....easy to visit!

NEW OPENING

Printemps Opening
One Wall Street

Well its open! The opening evening was a treat! It was hard to see if there was much to buy but Im sure the next day it was packed with product to buy. Printemps New York is located in the historic, 50-story landmark building, One Wall Street. The iconic Hildreth Meière designed the Art Deco landmark, with soaring ceilings and red ombre and gold mosaic tiles lining its walls and ceiling, houses Printemps’ magical shoe forest with 15-foot tall leaf canopy crafted from cut-out white metal, resembling delicate lace ( see phot above)

Award-winning chef, restaurateur and cookbook author Gregory Gourdet is at the helm of Printemps New York's five dining concepts. Classically French-trained, but globally-minded, Gourdet puts his unique touch on iconic French dishes.

Experientially there is a lot to take in and they have done an incredible job renovating the to be a true piece of artwork. laura Gonzalez was hired to transform this 55,000 square foot space and I have to say design wise she knocked it out of the park!

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