Author: Shen Shián
NY Adventure 40: Chaos Pollock’s pieces bring this to mind… There is apparent chaos within order, and subtle order within…
NY Adventure 39: Thinker Always saw Rodin’s Thinker in contrast to the Buddha in a meditative mode. While the Thinker…
NY Adventure 38: Clash? From this angle, Trinity Church looks lit but small and sandwiched between shadows of giant financial…
NY Adventure 37: Classics Some wonderful classic paintings spotted at the Met, by some favourite artists – Cezanne, Monet and…
NY Adventure 36: Other Sunflower The ‘other’ sunflower painting by Van Gogh at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. Not the…
NY Adventure 35: Barricades Bronze-like barricades the colour of the Charging Bull at Wall Street, perhaps for preventing terrorist vehicles…
NY Adventure 34: Charging Bull So many folks kept charging towards the Charging Bull that it was impossible to snap…
NY Adventure 33: High Line Sights along the High Line, which is an ex-railway remarkably reinvented as an elevated park,…
NY Adventure 32: Poignancy In the National Museum Of The American Indian are some poignant quotes, artifacts, with witty yet…
NY Adventure 31: Bridges Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges and their coastlines. What deep and wide waters separate us, and what…
NY Adventure 29: Sense Write to make sense and read what makes sense (to learn and reflect). Because life is…
NY Adventure 28: Liberty Too How Liberty looks like when she is approached by tourists on ferry boats (instead of…
NY Adventure 27: Gangster Hilarious gangsta signs for sale at Little Italy. Maybe this is where they filmed the Godfather…
NY Adventure 26: Liberty Liberty looking kindly but a bit worried… As Optimus Prime famously said, ‘Freedom is the right…
NY Adventure 25: Dragons Tourists crowding around to snap the colourful entrance of a fire station, which says ‘Chinatown Dragon…
NY Adventure 24: Racism An anti-racial discrimination reminder ad in the subway. Reminds of how in Singapore, a non-meritocratic (but…
NY Adventure 23: Ghostbusters Ghost, I mean fire-busters’ station! You’ll never find such fun and ‘creative’ signages at official places…
NY Adventure 22: St. Patrick’s Cathedral From St. Patrick’s School in Singapore years ago, here I am at St. Patrick’s…
NY Adventure 21: Three Poisons A High Line sculpture that reminds me of the Buddhist equivalent, of greed, hatred and…
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