Postcards · August 26, 2025
While wandering Manhattan’s Lower East Side with a friend, we accidentally stumbled into the Museum at Eldridge Street—an extraordinary 1887 immigrant synagogue hidden inside modern Chinatown. What followed was part architectural revelation, part neighborhood history, and part gloriously awkward conversation about mikvehs, migration, and the many layers underneath New York.
Postcards · August 21, 2025
Inside the Museum of the City of New York, Carrie Stettheimer’s 28-inch dollhouse turns out to be far more than a rich woman’s hobby. Built over nearly 20 years, it holds family history, domestic labor, miniature modern art, absent dolls, and one very strange version of New York.
Postcards · August 21, 2025
The Museum of the City of New York takes on the impossible job of explaining the whole city, from Dutch beavers and ceremonial shovels to jazz, disco, movie clips, and civic ambition. The result is uneven, overloaded, occasionally over-labeled, and at its best when the objects speak for themselves.
Postcards · July 31, 2025
The Merchant’s House Museum in Manhattan preserves something rare in New York: an entire 19th-century family home still filled with its original furnishings. Walking through its parlors, kitchen, and bedrooms reveals how the Tredwell family lived for nearly a century while the city outside transformed around them.
Postcards · July 27, 2025
A visit to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum reveals the foundations of the World Trade Center buried 70 feet beneath Manhattan. Twisted steel, a surviving slurry wall, and two vast reflecting pools mark the absence of the Twin Towers in one of the most quietly powerful memorials in the United States.
Postcards · July 16, 2025
We went to Paris specifically for David Hockney. His sprawling exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton wasn’t a greatest-hits tour but a forward-leaning statement from an 87-year-old artist still expanding his canon. From Normandy landscapes to unsparing self-portraits, it became an unexpected meditation on continuity, aging, and showing up.
Postcards · July 15, 2025
We had an empty Tuesday in Paris and zero expectations. What we found inside the former Gare d’Orsay was not just Impressionist greatest hits, but a full-scale encounter with an entire era—industrial ambition, empire, Rodin’s Gates of Hell, and a museum far larger than its reputation.