Tag: 1920s

• Gallery Mondays: Peacock Wallpaper @ The Astor Room

  Last week I hung out with a few friends at The Astor Room in Astoria, Queens where I treated myself to a cup of mint chocolate chip ice cream. I’d never been to The Astor Room before, but as I walked in, I immediately felt the 1920s speakeasy vibe of the place. Everything was so…

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  June 13, 2016

  Gallery Mondays, Pop Culture

  1920s, art, Astoria, bar, club, decor, floral print, Gallery Mondays, peacock, Queens, speakeasy, The Astor Room, wallpaper

• Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915-2015 @ Jack Shainman Gallery

  After reading about this exhibit in New York Magazine a few weeks ago, I made it my business to see Hank Willis Thomas’ “Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915-2015” at the Jack Shainman Gallery. My obsession for the culture of the 1920s and 1950s really made me appreciate this exhibit. Interestingly, all of these…

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  May 8, 2015

  Pop Culture

  1920s, 1930s, 1950s, advertisements, art, art gallery, females, gallery, Hank Willis Thomas, Jack Shainman, ladies, Unbranded: A Century of White Women 1915-2015, Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968-2008, vintage ads, White Women, women

• Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby’

  Yesterday, for my 19th birthday, I went to see The Great Gatsby (2013) with my guy and my best friend. Not having read the book in high school (due to my transferring between schools with two different English literature curricula, resulting in my having missed the reading of Gatsby by the time I had transferred),…

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  May 21, 2013

  Entertainment

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