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How to Eat, Drink, and Sleep Like an Urchin in London
By Geo Ong If you’re an American lucky enough to travel to London in the near future, good for you. Just don’t tell us. We may resent you forever. Unless you’re offering to take us with you. But...
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My 30-Minute MoMA Moment
by Geo Ong There’s not one right way to visit a museum, but the way I visited the Museum of Modern Art certainly wasn’t one of them. Still being the recent transplant that I am, I had never gone to the...
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Urchin Freebies
Many cities have a lot to offer, and some of it is free! It’s just a matter of knowing what’s out there. Luckily for you, dear reader, you have three cheapo detectives known as the Urchins on the case!...
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Urchin Freebies
Art Gallery of NSW Sydney, Australia Just a short stroll from Sydney’s sprawling and absolutely beautiful Royal Botanic Gardens, and still within The Domain, lies the Art Gallery of New South Wales....
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The Weekly Urchin Recap
By Geo Ong I had the chance to get out of the city for a day last week, so I took the Metro-North rail to Beacon, New York, about 60 miles north of Manhattan on the Hudson River Valley. There I visited...
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Art Space – Dia:Beacon
By Geo Ong Even if you aren’t a particular fan of contemporary art, the Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York, is still very much a site to see. The contemporary art museum opened its doors in 2003, occupying...
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How to Time-Travel
By Geo Ong I have stumbled upon a secret that I am with much risk choosing to share with you. I only ask that if you spread this secret, which I would like you to do (for this is my reason for telling...
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Urchin Freebies
Short on cash? Saving up for those coveted Union Jack window curtains? Have no fear! Even in the most expensive cities, there are always engaging and fun things to do for free if you’re willing to look...
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The Weekly Urchin Recap
By Geo Ong Currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan is an exhibit called Blues for Smoke, ‘a wide range of contemporary art, music, literature, and film through the lens of...
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John Singer Sargent, Travel Painter
By Geo Ong An unreflective spectator, Sargent saw the world as a string of motifs and rendered its surface with sparkling bravura. The best of his watercolors, which constitute the travel diary of his...
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Wangechi Mutu: Peering into the Afrofuture
By Geo Ong ‘Pretty Double-Head’, Wangechi Mutu (2010). When the Urchin Movement first covered the work of Wangechi Mutu, Sarah Jost took us down the dark and wooded shamanic path that Mutu’s exhibit...
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