House of the Day: 743 Eastern Parkway
Describing this house at 743 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights as being “near the Brooklyn Museum” is a bit of a stretch but it’s still kinda interesting, we think. There are two parking spots in the front driveway and a legal professional office on the ground floor for income generation. The two upper floors are…
Describing this house at 743 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights as being “near the Brooklyn Museum” is a bit of a stretch but it’s still kinda interesting, we think. There are two parking spots in the front driveway and a legal professional office on the ground floor for income generation. The two upper floors are currently configured as two separate apartments but there’s no reason they couldn’t be connected to make an owner’s duplex. There’s a surprising amount of original detail left in the house as well. Asking price: $650,000. Good buy?
743 Eastern Parkway [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
egg tempera- now that is a medium I would LOVE to know how to work in. I envy you Heather! I agree with you on everything you said. I work in mixed media- drawing on materials that my mother used to give us to play with, and others that I jsut like. But when I draw, I use a quill point pen and ink. I think one of th reason I love folk art is because it is so honest- or used to be before it became a “style.”
heather…
unique=newsworthy
unique <> good
same problem exists in theater and dance as well as art.
Bxgirl, we have similar tastes. I used to paint in egg tempera. Rothko’s fine. I can even live with Rauschenberg and Johns, as long as you don’t buy them for $10MM, which would be silly, since you could easily make them yourself.
I don’t know, Pierre, I don’t know who Murakami is. But art today… everyone has a schtick. And there’s this concept that to be an artist is to be some kind of visionary… with an ideology. And a schtick. Did I spell that correctly? I think it’s bad news to assume artists are smart… not really a job requirement.
bkn4life- It was a beautiful exhibition. We even had new, specially sculpted mannequins made, each shaped for the different eras. I worked for a year on getting the costumes ready and then got horrible bronchitus and couldn’t make the opening.
they shut the collection down right after the exhibit. Then they closed down the department. If I remember, they made a halfassed attempt to reopen the department but once they got rid of their legendary curator Ann Coleman, they lost the vision and the expertise that really made it a world class collection. Going up into the storerooms was walking with ghosts- it was an experience. It wasn’t just costume-the textile collection was also unbelievable. I wonder what happened to that?
they announced it under cover of night during the year end holidays.
i agree its a crime.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/arts/design/16muse.html?_r=1
there is a bit about a sham partnership. no discussion with the general public. no request for donations to care for it. abdication of resposibility. its like they dont work for us.
but is gone now. bastards.
bxgirl: i remember that exhibit. sticks with me today. still.
Hey NOP as usual absolutely wonderful stories about Crown Heights and Brooklyn.
bxgrl and Heather your exchange is really inspiring and civilized…now will see if the missus can arrange a Brooklyn Museum visit for us over the weekend:)
BTW we saw Murakami exhibit and really liked it a lot..is that sacrilege? Ah:))
The house has potential but is not worth a penny over $500K today.
wow- I didn’t hear about that. Is the whole ting gone? I knew that the directors never considered it very important (the more fools them) but – crap. Another Brooklyn treasure goes to Manhattan. F**k!!!!!
That’s criminal- they had one of the world’s most important collections of Charles James, Worth and Schapiarelli. And some of the rarer designers such as Pingat. I worked on the last major exhibition, the Opulent Era- I can’t even begin to tell you how magnificent the Brooklyn museum collection was. But No museum director since 1988 thought it was important or even “art”. Talk about your effete, impudent snobs.Brooklyn’s loss all the way around.
“The B’klyn Museum’s collections rival those of the Met.”
even for the collection they sold to the met this year. awful long hike to manhattan now for the costume collection.
Ohhhhhh, Heather- that’s what I was missing. The downpayment and the mortgage. Rats. Well I do have the consolation of being able to walk to the Childrens Museum which is only a couple of blocks from me. The Brooklyn is a little bit of a hike but really well within walkable distance.
I agree with you about most contemporary art. i happen to love folk and outsider art, and medieval and Northern renaissance art. At the risk of sounding like a barbarian i have to say Jackson Pollack ‘s work looks like a painter’s dropcloth at the end of the day. On the other hand, I wouldn’t kick a Mark Rothko out of bed :-). I never did understand (or maybe a better term is “accept”) the concept of trends as a determinant for art. True art is ageless and transcendental.
Just always seemed to me that if we have to have the NYTimes art critic explain a work before we can understand it, there’s something wrong with the artist’s work. Too much contemporary work is deliberately obscure and more about shock than true expression. But that’s just me.