Sixty-hour pork broth, MoMAs latest collaboration, and more NYC events
Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC.It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? Foundrae opens on Madison Avenue, The Brooklyn Museum Turns 200 and a beloved Ramen restaurant reopens. “Before I ever set foot in the space, I had a feeling it would be FoundRae’s newest home, because of its auspicious address: 777,” says Beth Hutchens, who founded the lifestyle brand in 2015.
Interiors of the 1,600 square foot space, on Madison Avenue between 66th and 67th streets, were inspired by fashion icon Diana Vreeland’s Park Avenue apartment (note the red hues).The bookcase-lined walls boast an assortment of vintage and antique books and objects; vignettes tucked in between showcase ephemera and kaleidoscopes of FoundRae medallions.
Solid gold chains in a variety of lengths, links, and weights hang on wooden crescents, encouraging guests to create pieces personal to them.FoundRae.com“The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition,” which opened earlier this month in honor of The Brooklyn Museum’s 200th birthday, features 200 artists from the borough.
How to choose only 200? Through an open call that resulted in almost 4,000 submissions and an Artist Committee helmed by the likes of Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Fred Tomaselli and Mickalene Thomas.The museum notes that “participants represent a full range of disciplines, from drawing and painting to sculpture, video, installation, and beyond…together these works capture the vibrancy of both Brooklyn and its artists, who are bound by deep-rooted connections and a shared love of this singular place.” A virtual tour is available on the museum’s site; the exhibition is up through January 26, 2025.
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