Tag: synagogue

  • March 10, 2016 at 06:00PM

    Finishing up the day with artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans’ stained glass rose window at the east end of the sanctuary, installed 2010, a modern intervention—in a way celebrating the process of restoring the synagogue and creating the Museum at Eldridge Street. Thanks for following along (visit the museum!) and thank you to…

  • March 10, 2016 at 03:34PM

    Part of the cast iron fence outside of the @museumateldridgestreet. Passers by were stopping for a minute to check out the drawing, of which this one took a minute. #NicksLunchboxAtEldridge #eldridgestreet #castiron #museumateldridgestreet #museum #synagogue #drawing #NicksLunchboxService #art (at Museum at Eldridge Street) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1XfY9mh via IFTTT

  • March 10, 2016 at 02:34PM

    The winding staircase @museumateldridgestreet from the balcony level, which was used for seating the women of the Orthodox congregation. #NicksLunchboxAtEldridge #windingstaircase #drawing #stairwell #NicksLunchboxService #balcony #synagogue #art #architecture #drawing #sketchbook #vertigo (at Museum at Eldridge Street) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1WcFEPD via IFTTT

  • March 10, 2016 at 12:28PM

    800th Lunchtime #drawing: “Walking in hundred year old footsteps” and looking up at the west facing rose window @museumateldridgestreet. This is my 800th consecutive daily drawing in my #NicksLunchboxService project—and I’m excited for this to be at The Museum at Eldridge Street! That’s one every single day without missing a single drawing since January 1,…

  • March 10, 2016 at 10:36AM

    Initiated in the 1980s, the restoration of the @museumateldridgestreet was completed in 2007. This chandelier was just ‘hanging by a thread to heaven’ before being restored (-Roberta Brandes Gratz, founder of the Museum at Eldridge Street). There are over 300 parts to this chandelier all carefully conserved, and amazingly, put back together again. #NicksLunchboxAtEldridge #NicksLunchboxService…

  • March 10, 2016 at 09:03AM

    I’m taking over over the Instagram feed at @museumateldridgestreet all day today, follow along with #NicksLunchboxAtEldridge The Eldridge Street Synagogue was built in 1887 and designed by architects Peter and Francis William Herter. This was the first time in America that Eastern European Jews had built a synagogue from the ground up. By the 1940s…

  • March 09, 2016 at 06:02PM

    I’m taking over the @eldridgestreet Instagram feed tomorrow (3/10) with my #NicksLunchboxService drawing project—follow along all day with #NicksLunchboxAtEldridge In addition, I’ll be celebrating a milestone – my 800th consecutive daily drawing! Thrilled for both. Stay tuned. #art #architecture #instagramtakeover #eldridgestreetmuseum #lowereastside #les #chinatown #366project #sketchbook #synagogue #chandelier (at Museum at Eldridge Street) from Nick’s…

  • December 23, 2015 at 05:21PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Raining, not snowing, on this second day of winter at the @museumateldridgestreet – the synagogue opened in 1887. #NicksLunchboxService #eldridgestreet #museumateldridgestreet #synagogue #museum #art #architecture (at Museum at Eldridge Street) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1TigUUF via IFTTT

  • July 08, 2015 at 05:30PM

    Later than lunchtime #drawing: Waiting out the rain beneath scaffolding on Charles Street, next to Congregation Darech Amuno. #NicksLunchboxService #synagogue #WestVillage #GreenwichVillage #summerrain #CharlesStreet #architecture #sketchbook (at Congregation Darchei Amunoh) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1TmhGAz via IFTTT

  • November 06, 2014 at 02:24PM

    Lunchtime drawing: Park Avenue Synagogue on East 87th Street on a rainy day in NYC. from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1thM7bo via IFTTT