Welcome to Life in Sutton Place, a weekly newsletter for people who live in Sutton Place - or plan to live in or visit New York.
In this Issue: We’re focusing on who had an endless curiosity with air and wind bringing him to invent the mobile 100 years ago, what inspired Frank Lloyd Wright to create, how you can feel a sense of renewal on East 50th Street, and where to go to start your day with poetry and love in Sutton Place.
5 things to do
RESTAURANT
1. Support small business and start your day at one of the treasures of Sutton Place, Eclair Bakery: The cute French artisan patisserie where you can sample everything from raspberry tarts and matcha eclairs to gluten-free financiers and madeleines that you can imagine Proust enjoying while contemplating life.
Eclair Bakery, 305 East 53rd Street.
MUSEUM
2. Open your world through art: One exhibit not to miss is Every Kind of Wind: Calder and the 21st Century (through January 28th, 2023) at Namad Contemporary, New York.
Alexander Calder, the playful artist, and sculptor, invented the mobile almost 100 years ago. The exhibit organized with the Calder Foundation, explores Calder’s endless curiosity with material, weight, and scale. Including how Calder balanced the sculpture’s relationship with air and wind.
On view are everything from his early wire sculptures to standing and hanging mobiles that are presented with five internationally-based artists working today.
Calder in one of his few public comments on his work said:
"I have made a number of things for the open air: all of them react to wind and are like a sailing vessel in that they react best to one kind of breeze. It is impossible to make a thing work with every kind of wind."
Nahmad Contemporary, 980 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor.
ARCHITECTURE
3. Enjoy the sights and light of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum: The masterpiece of modern architecture that took 15 years to design and build, finally opening on October 1959.
Wright didn’t think New York City was an ideal place for a museum, however, settled on its current location for its closeness to nature, the most important source of inspiration for his architecture.
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue.
NATURE
4. Renew yourself while looking at the elegant little tree with on East 50th Street: That looks still, peaceful, and content in the cool crisp air.
Elegant little tree, 414 East 50th Street.
PEOPLE
5. Feel the love in Sutton Place:
““Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.””
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