Kind of a hoot to be in the mix of a bustling city with events firing off at different corners throughout the waking hours. Coming from a quiet nook of the west coast, this cultural mashup was is a bit of the draw in my migration eastward.

Something I look forward to each year is the run of Lunar New Year events. 2025 falls on the year of the snake starting on the 29th of January and as always events extend out into the following two weeks. Traditional dances and performances alongside fireworks take up most of these spaces.

Here’s a few images from Queens Museum and The Queens Botanical Garden:

On the art side I’ve been able to drop into Chelsea Galleries, The Guggenheim, Pioneer Works. What stood out was Sonia Delauney’s work and influence during the era of Orphism in France. It was impressive reading up on her contribution to the movement during the early 1900s.

Pioneer Works currently has a few exhibitions up and one by Yehwan Song digital media works blending moving pictures, still images, and graphic design. I’m not an art historian or critic, but I’ll have to say it’s amongst the most engaging works I’ve seen to start the year.