Sixty Hours of Pork Gravy, MoMA’s latest collaboration, and more NYC events

Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion awards, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and popular cultural events in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the best things to see, buy, taste and experience around town.

What’s making our luxury list this week? Foundrae opens on Madison Avenue, the Brooklyn Museum turns 200, and a beloved Ramen restaurant reopens.

“Before I ever stepped foot in the space, I had a feeling it would be FoundRae’s newest home, because of its auspicious address: 777,” says Beth Hutchens, who founded the lifestyle brand in 2015. The interior of the 1,600-square-foot space, on Madison Avenue between 66th and 67th streets, was inspired by fashion icon Diana Vreeland’s Park Avenue apartment. (note the red shades). The bookcase-lined walls boast a variety of vintage and antique books and objects; vignettes set among showcase ephemera and kaleidoscopes of FoundRae medallions. Solid gold chains in various lengths, links and weights hang from wooden crescents, encouraging guests to create personal pieces for themselves. FoundRae.com

The Brooklyn Artists Exhibit, which opened earlier this month in honor of the Brooklyn Museum’s 200th birthday, features 200 artists from the borough. How to choose only 200? Through an open call that resulted in almost 4,000 submissions and an Artist Committee led by the likes of Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Fred Tomaselli and Mickalene Thomas. The museum notes that “participants represent a full range of disciplines, from drawing and painting to sculpture, video, installation and beyond…together these works capture the vibrancy of Brooklyn and its artists, who are bound by deep-rooted ties deep and a common love for this special place.” A virtual tour is available on the museum’s website; exhibit runs through January 26, 2025. BrooklynMuseum.org

Those whose eating habits change with the seasons will be thrilled to know that East Village favorite TabeTomo has reopened after a string of disasters ranging from pandemic closures, vandalism and fire. For those not in the know, the restaurant (whose name translates to “eating buddy”) specializes in Tsukemen or “dripping ramen,” which they describe as “a modern cousin of the traditional Japanese ramen dish invented in the 20th century. The noodles are dipped in a separate bowl of broth, allowing the consumer to enjoy the richer broth and firmer noodles.” It’s a bit of an IYKYK situation, but if you don’t, now is the perfect time to light up on all things Tsukemen, especially the 60-hour pork broth TabeTomoNYC.com

MoMA’s design store is killing it with collaborations — samples with Nike and Bodum are still available on their site. The latest is with Champion, but it’s actually not their first partnership. A MoMA Champion hoodie, now in the museum’s collection, debuted in 2017 in conjunction with exhibition “Articles: Is fashion modern?” The latest collection features five pieces—a satin bomber jacket, hoodie, retro sweater, sweatshirt, and baseball top—all inspired by the store’s design team’s visit to Champion’s New York archives and (who knew?) their custom facilities in Kansas City. Priced from $45 – $145 at Store.MoMA.org

Mention “Egon Schiele” to an art lover and they will undoubtedly mention the Austrian artist’s often haunting portraits. But it turns out that Schiele was also quite prolific in landscape painting. A selection of these works are now on display in the Neue Galerie New York exhibition “Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes”. The museum notes that with these works “flowers and trees take on the role of portrait subjects and convey an almost human appearance. Schiele’s landscapes always represent more than their apparent subject. His portrayal of nature and his interpretation of cities and trees embody the cycle of life and the human condition.” A fully illustrated catalog accompanies the exhibition. On view until January 13, 2025.