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 Alexandra Kleimanis a New York-based, Chicago-born curator, critic, art historian and gastronome. She is a co-founder of the baked and artisanal goods sampling company, Samplrs, and a member of the MAKESHIFT art collective. She has a keen interest in contemporary art, and a passion for finding new foods and restaurants to try. If you have a New York charity or cultural event, restaurant, boutique, spa, or salon you would like covered on Miss A, please contact Alexandra at alexandrakleiman1@gmail.com. |
 
On Wednesday, Culintro held its annual cocktail party and discussion on innovations in restaurant design, co-hosted by Hospitality Design Magazine and kitchen appliance designer Sam Tell. The event, held at the Gabarron Foundation, featured panelists from the equipment designer and from a pop-up restaurant I reviewed in April, What Happens When, consisting of Sam [...] 
One of my favorite restaurants in Nolita is the tiny Café Habana, a one-room Cuban experience done by artist and restaurateur Sean Meenan. The outside of the restaurant is minimally adorned with their blue and white logo, and the interior is fashionably studded with ’70s-ish Cuban-inspired paintings, posters and relics. The drinks are strong [...] 
At the tiny, minimally-adorned but charming restaurant Kasadela, one can find a variety of authentic Japanese specialties such as tempuras, grilled meat skewers, donburi (rice bowl dishes) and rice soups, mixed in with several other less traditional, but equally A table in the dining room at Kasadela. Image courtesy New York Magazine. enticing [...] 
Israeli-born, New Jersey-based artist Etty Yaniv simultaneously mounted her final MFA show this week at SUNY Purchase and had works shown at the respected Lower East Side gallery White Box‘s “3 States of Mind” exhibition, a show in three parts showing works from graduating MFA students at three top state schools: SUNY Purchase, Virginia [...] 
Osteria Morini‘s chef Michael White is on an astounding roll, also opening Ai Fiori and Marea, as well as revamping Alto, all in the past three years, and each of which is high-profile and hugely successful. At Morini, his newest venture, White offers highlights of Italian fare from the Northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, [...] 
Contemporary artist Lynda Benglis currently has her first New York-based retrospective on view at the New Museum on Bowery, her first anywhere in 20 years. Benglis was born outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, but moved to New York in the early 1960′s, when she began regularly making work. The exhibition, curated by New Museum [...] 
The Nolita pop-up restaurant What Happens When is now in its third phase, transforming its menu, design and playlist every 30 days for nine months. The restaurant/exhibition/installation is the result of a collaboration between one chef, two designers and a composer, all palpably quite talented: John Fraser in charge of food, Elle Kunnos de [...] 
The best apple pie I’ve ever eaten was at The Blue Stove in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, just off the Graham Avenue L train stop – and the mini-pie came with a red grosgrain ribbon around it, only making me fall in love with it more. The crust was flaky and buttery in all the right [...] 
At the Whitney Museum of American Art this season is Glenn Ligon‘s first comprehensive mid-career retrospective, AMERICA, a high-stakes type of show for any artist. Ligon is forced to consider: How will this show represent, categorize and theorize the work I’ve already done? How can I leave room for myself to expand upon the [...] 
Last week I tried the understated, yet incredibly well designed East Village restaurant Whitmans, and it was a breath of fresh air among the hordes of rushed downtown locales. The restaurant takes part in the budding and respected Slow Food movement among chefs, farmers and grocers, which aims to help communities increase [...] |
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May 31st, 2011 
