Nothing's more appealing to our ears than hearing about brand new freebies, like admission to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philly. The museum, through underwriting via a recent super-donation, has just announced it will charge zero admission for the next five years.
Head there for a fun summer getaway and check out current exhibits like "Mike's World" (through August 3), the first major retrospective of internationally renowned performance/video/installation artist Michael Smith and his New York-based collaborator, director/artist Joshua White.
For foodies there's Trenton Doyle Hancock's "Wow That's Mean and Other Vegan Cuisine" (also through August 3), part of a narrative installation between the Mounds (human-plant hybrids) and the Vegans (a tofu-worshipping mutant species of ape man).
ICA is on the campus of UPenn and closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, so be sure to plan your gratis visit accordingly.
We spotted this painted lady outside the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle. In the tradition of the Cows on Parade, the Zurich public-art project featuring hand-painted statues of cows, Major League Baseball has planted several Statues of Liberty with new paint jobs throughout New York.
Eventually there will be 42 miniature replicas of New York Harbor's grand madame around town. (Find them yourself or download the MLB-provided map.) You can also buy wee versions of the ladies Liberty, but where's the fun in that?
The Walker Art Center now has two mini-golf courses, and we couldn't come up with a better description than the curators did:
In the mockumentary film "This Is Spinal Tap," bassist Derek Smalls suggests that the difference between miniature golf and regular golf is the size of the ball. While the ball remains the same, virtually everything else about mini golf grows--at least on the course of Walker on the Green: Artist-Designed Mini Golf.
For $8 you can play through one of the seven-hole courses, which were designed by local artists. What should you expect? You'll find a pachinko-style hole, a "Water Hazard" hole, pictured, that employs empty bottles as obstacles and even the "Big Kahuna," a sort of frozen-in-place wave. The fun continues until September 7.
The waterfalls are on! After months of waiting, one of New York's most ambitious public art projects since "The Gates" is officially open.
The great thing about public art is that it isn't locked up inside a stuffy museum. But since the falls are scattered around the city, we put together a little guide to help you track 'em down.
Here's a tip: When you find yourself assuring reporters that the $42,000 bronze monument you've put on display involves "no kitsch or obscenity," your art project was probably a bad idea. The statue in question is a tribute to the enema that was unveiled at a spa in the Russian city of Zheleznovodsk on Wednesday. The Botticelli-inspired monument depicts three cherubic little angles holding aloft a bronze syringe bulb that's used for anal cleansing.
The sculpture was presented to the public this weekend at a celebration featuring models and a banner bearing the charming Soviet slogan "Let's beat constipation and sloppiness with enemas." The owner of the spa said enemas are "almost a symbol" of the Caucasus, dotted as the region is with retreats offering visitors the opportunity to get local mineral water sprayed up their ass. (Hey, Zheleznovodsk does mean "Iron Waters.")
Maybe when the spa gang realizes how ridiculous this makes them look they can change that butt bulb into an onion?
Maybe it's the heat that's been gripping NYC or maybe everyone in New York is just that into public art, but Gotham blogs are going crazy over the soon-to-be-fully-operational waterfalls of artist Olafur Eliasson.
This snapshot from Curbed shows one of the cascades doing a test run in preparation for the exhibit's debut on June 26. This one's on Pier 35 on the Lower East Side; two others are in Brooklyn, and a fourth is set up on Governors Island.
We're all about opening avenues of communication to other countries, so we were thrilled when the Telectroscope opened last month in Brooklyn and London. Artist Paul St. George claimed to exploit a never-before-used underground tunnel between the two cities to allow passerby in both cities to wave at each other. (If you buy that, we won't ruin the illusion for you!)
Finding this steampunky gadget turned out to be an adventure in itself after we took a wrong turn (in yesterday's record-breaking heat, no less) and ended up on the wrong side of the Brooklyn Bridge. (Hint: The Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park is in two parts, one north of the bridge, the other south.)
Hopefully the picture above will help you catch the Telectroscope before it closes on Sunday. After the jump, a few more views of the mighty machine.
When we found out one of our recent flights went through O'Hare International on the way to Boston we got cold chills and our spine tingled. ORD is rightly notorious for delays and canceled flights. Given the violent weather that's been sweeping the Midwest, we crossed our fingers and stayed as positive as a meadowlark in a field full of flowers.
Not only did our flight go off without a hitch, we got to experience the awesomeness of the pedestrian connector between Concourses B and C in Terminal 2.
It was like walking through a futuristic disco version of Captain EO. All that was missing to make this the coolest transfer ever was roller skate rentals and 3-D glasses. Next time you find yourself stranded at O'Hare, head down to the moving walkway and relish the pretty lights.
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