Seen & Heard: Last call at City Winery (for now)

LAST CALL AT CITY WINERY TILL 2020
City Winery will close at its original location at the end of July, and will then be on hiatus until early 2020, when it reopens at Pier 57 in Hudson River Park. They just added a 10th Anniversary special: Remembering Prince Featuring The Loser’s Lounge and TBA guests for July 22. Otherwise, for last licks, see the website here.

DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN’S MUSEUM REMEMBERED
The executive director of the Children’s Museum of the Arts, Barbara Hunt McLanahan, died on June 25 after a battle with cancer. She was 55 years old. Appointed to the position in February 2013, Barbara was a driving force in the museum’s programmatic growth and its move to the current 10,000-square-foot facility in Soho. She also had an amazing career before coming to the museum: A native of the UK, she came to the US in 1997 and worked first at Visual AIDS (1997–2000), and later served much-admired tenures at Artists Space (executive director, 2000–13) and the Judd Foundation (executive director, 2006–13). For her many achievements, she was named Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France in 2006.

KOREAN BEAUTY PRODUCTS AT THE OCULUS
Korean beauty brand innisfree opened its third city store at Westfield World Trade Center in June. Innisfree (the lack of a capital letter is on them) launched in the U.S. in 2017, with its first store in Union Square. The brand offers beauty solutions sourced with natural ingredients found on Korea’s Jeju Island – a pristine island oasis where innisfree owns and operates USDA certified organic green tea fields.

SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM EXAMINES DENSITY
A new exhibition at The Skyscraper Museum, Housing Density: From Tenements to Towers, examines how density has shaped the way we live and build in New York City today. A two-track show that combines history and analysis, the show examines the basic, binary approaches to residential development in New York in the twentieth century: private and public housing. Open until December at 39 Battery Place. Museum hours are 12-6 PM, Wednesday-Sunday.

 

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