DUANE PARK CONCERT TONIGHT
The Friends of Duane Park will host Marco Foster as part of their Music in the Park series today, from 6:30 to 8. Other dates are July 11, August 8 and Sept. 12. Foster is a recording artist based in Brooklyn who has found a musical home reinventing classic songs of the past for a modern world. More info here.

ALSO…DUANE PARK WILL AUCTION DINNER TICKETS
The Friends of Duane Park will raffle two tickets to this year’s sold-out Dinner on Duane, scheduled for Sept. 15, at its summer concerts tonight and on July 11. The tickets are $50 each and only 99 will be sold. Raffle ticket sales will close on August 1 and the drawing will take place at the concert on August 8 at 6:30pm. The winner need not be present to win. More info here.

NEW TROPICAL COCKTAIL BAR AT PIER 17
The Seaport has opened Kokos at Pearl Alley, a new casual bar on the northeast side of Pier 17. There are multiple bars with tropical accents, greenery and cabanas. Hours are Monday – Wednesday, 4p to midnight; Thursday and Friday, 3p to midnight; Saturday noon to midnight; Sunday noon to 9p. More info here.

Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – the Harvest, 1982. © Agnes Denes. Courtesy of the artist and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.

DENES’ WHEATFIELD AT ART BASEL
Artist Agnes Denes revived her iconic 1982 Public Art Fund commission, Wheatfields for Manhattan, at Art Basel, turning Basel’s Messeplatz into a wheat field. When it was first exhibited, Denes cultivated an acres of wheat in the empty lots that would eventually become Battery Park City. This new piece, “Honouring Wheatfield – A Confrontation,” ”demands viewers’ attention to be redirected toward what Denes identifies as today’s most pressing priorities: ‘food, energy, commerce, world trade, economics,’ as well as ‘mismanagement, waste, world hunger, and ecological concerns.'” There’s a good Q&A with Denes here. 

Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – Blue Sky, World Trade Center, 1982. © Agnes Denes. Courtesy of the artist and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.

Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – Blue Sky, World Trade Center, 1982. © Agnes Denes. Courtesy of the artist and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.