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Usually, museum security people bask in the fun of telling people to move away from the artwork. Now through September 5th, all that changes at the Guggenheim.

The Shapes of Space highlights pieces from the permanent collection that focus on space as an elastic entity. The exhibit groups pieces together based on theme rather than a timeline. Themes include psychological space, imagined space, and infinite space.

What better space to install the Shapes of Space than Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda, a famous museum and art space named after a man who played with shapes.

Now onto that whole touching the art thing. Some of the exhibit is interactive; it DEPENDS on you to touch it. For example, Piotr Uklański’s Untitled work is a disco-reminscent-of-Saturday-Night-Fever dance floor). Pretty cool, huh? People strut their stuff and boxes of color move and flash and change.

Also at the Guggenheim under the category of Things You Aren’t Allowed To Touch:

Arcadia and Anarchy: Divisionism and Neo-Impressionism, ends August 6th

Solomon’s Gift: The Founding Collection of the Guggenheim, ends January 9th, 2008

As well as the permanent collection of ongoing exhibits.

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School has never been so drunkenly fun! Unless you were in that one frat house on my campus. Then you were always drunk. No matter what your study habits, if you like wine, you’re sure to enjoy Divine Bar’s Vino-Versity. These classes offer informal wine tasting educations for first timers to pros–by pros, I mean people who actually know how to taste wine, not people who down boxes of it every day for fun.

Some sessions are left in this summer semester:

8/7 You Vill Drink It and You Vill Like It: Wines of Alsace Germany and Austria
8/21 Club Med: Wines of the Mediterranean
9/11 Reds, Whites, and Blue!: Comparing whites and reds with a Fruits of the Sea (read: seafood) buffet–this one has a special $44 per person price because of the deep blue aspect
Also, Walk-Around Classes are available featuring 24-36 wines on Tuesdays from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.
Advance tickets for classes are $38. At the door, $48 if available. Divine Bar East is located at 244 East 51st Street and Divine Bar West is located at 236 West 54th between Broadway and 8th. Your class will state the location.

Tastings are accompanied by cheeses, breads, and dips as to not let you get too schnockered.

Okay, I’m back on my pig thing….
One, two, three little piggies make five.
OR
1, 2, 3 Little Piggies Make 5.
OR
1, 2, 3 Little Piggies Make 5.
OR
1st Ave, 2nd Ave, 3rd Ave, Lexington Ave, Park Ave, Madison Ave, 5th Ave.
OR
1st, 2nd, 3rd, Lex, Park, Madison, 5th.
This is the latest trick I’ve learned to keep the city straight. While the whole “city is a grid” mantra persists, we know that certain parts don’t hold true to the grid theory. To remember which order Lexington, Park, and Madison are in, just remember the pigs. Sure, the saying doesn’t make much sense, but still, you’ll remember it. Then once you say it a few times, you won’t be able to get it out of your head for a while.

When Ulysses journeyed around the globe, he encountered three beautiful women who sang so loverly that they mesmerized him, hypnotized him, seduced him into their clutches. Turns out that they were not lovely women, but were in fact evil bird women who tricked sailors into jumping into the sea to their deaths.

Sex and the City changed lives for a lot of New York women. Based on Candace Bushnell’s book of the same name, it offered the raunchy side of girl talk, the disastrous embarrassments of dating, and the complicated antics of love. Through it all, the one reliable thing was New York.

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First off, again, I’m wishing my big brother a very happy birthday! Hooray!

This week, my big brother celebrates another birthday on July 11th. Happy Birthday, to a great New Yorker!

Wall Street IS the movie about the love of money. Wall St. NYC is the place to see lots of people in suits.

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