It's Sakura Matsuri Time at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden!

And, a pic from last year's Sakura Matsuri...


Happy to say I took this pic and, it's just stunning!

  



 

Vienna 1900 : Neue Galerie New York

The other day while coming home from the Met, I saw Neue Galerie on the 5th avenue, 86 street. It's a museum for the German and Austrian Art. What caught my eyes was the banner on street post that says currently at the Galerie there is an exhibition called "Vienna 1900: Style and Identity". I would love to see that only caz when I was visiting Vienna two years ago, I actually didn't get to visit any museum!!!!! How pathetic and sad that was despite staying there for about 10 days. Won't get into too much details on why...but I was really looking forward to seeing "The Kiss" art by Gustav Klimt, which didn't happen. I know, this is not gonna be like being in Vienna and actually enjoying a museum there....but I will be happy with what we got here. This exhibition does have works by Gustav, so I guess that's good!

So, I did look into their website and I see, the admission price is 15.00!!! yawzaaaa!! But good news is, this museum participates in some museum mile thing and thanks to Bloomberg (I'm guessing the financial Bloomberg not the mayor ;) ) they have First Friday of Every month free from 6-8 p.m., at least for the rest of the year. So, of course I want to visit then...which will be on June 3rd! I hope I will have nothing else going on and can get to see the exhibition.

And they have cafes that sell Sacher Torte!! Another thing that I missed in Vienna...being in actually Viennese cafe and pretending to be one of those intelectual who sip coffee all day long and talk nonsense about politics and such! I did have Sacher Torte...not a fan of it however! And the price of the Sacher Torte at this cafe is whopping $8.00.........nooooooo!!!! Needless to say, I won't be having that!

This is an article I found on the net regarding this exhibition, which explains things a bit more:

Article

Pic from the website of Neue Galerie:

A trip to Brooklyn Botanical Garden!

I am really looking forward to the upcoming Sakura Matsuri festival at the BBG . Sakura Matsuri is the ultimate final showdown of Hanami , the month long Cherry Blossoms. I had been there once two years ago, for the Hanami and it was beautiful! Since then I've been meaning to attend the final weekends of Hanami that takes place on the last weekend of the month long Cherry Blossom viewing with tons Japanese cultural activities and stuffs. And that ending festival is called Sakura Matsuri. I was kind of thinking if they would have it this year since the whole Japan earthquake-Tsunami disaster (I mean they might not be in mood for it), but as my sister pointed out, they would probably have it even more to show their good spirit. Indeed it's going to happen, and there will be activities dedicated to that unfortunate natural disaster. This year it's going to be on April 30th and May 1st. My sis and I are going on April 30th, so far weather forecast has been looking charming for that day! Let's keep our fingers crossed.

As for being very resourceful and good at finding out deals, for this there is none! It's $15.00 per person and I think, it's pretty reasonable. Now, I can't wait for the weekend to come!

Here is a pic of from the Cherry Blossoms 2009, it's really not a great shot, it was damn sunny that day and I had a bad camera!

Bread and Yoga- Birthstories Luncheon and Fair

I'm just going to post it here. Bread and Yoga is having this Birth Stories luncheon and Fair this coming Sunday, May 1st. It's $20 per couple. And I am definitely going.

Here is the info:

Birth Stories luncheon and Fair