INSTITUTE OF CULINARY ED HAS REOPENED
The Institute of Culinary Education reopened its Brookfield Place (225 Liberty) campus this summer for the first time since March 2020 and now has a series of fall classes on the schedule for home cooks (they also train pros, but that’s a separate program). The school offers recreational cooking, baking and beverage classes including for this fall, pizza baking for kids and parents, croissant and brioche making, dim sum and a thanksgiving pie workshop. See the lineup here.

SCROLL THROUGH HUDSON SQUARE
The Hudson Square BID has a new $22 million plan, created by local planner Claire Weisz and her firm WXY, that will change the street scape in the district, adding trees, wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes and a new and improved Greenwich Street. More later, but if you are anxious to see it, scroll through here. Take your Dramamine first!

NEW SHOW AT PACE ART GALLERY
The Pace University Art Gallery opened an exhibit called “Substance” running through Oct. 30 featuring abstract artists Diego Anaya, Liz Atz, Linda Ekstrom and Alberto Lule. Anaya’s work is minimalist in imagery and he celebrates his Mexican heritage through the use of ground corn, corn ash, and sand. Atz will recreate a large-scale window installation from a March 2021 artist residency on-site made of mushroom based, fully biodegradable plastics. Ekstrom’s works from her “Word” series use text from religious sources as a form of inspiration and commentary. Lule critiques the prison industrial complex in America as a form of modern slavery. His “Investigation” series offers insight to his experience as a formerly incarcerated person by using fingerprint powder. The gallery is located at 41 Park Row with the entrance on Spruce Street.

MARIANO FERRANTE AT API
Art Projects International, at 434 Greenwich at Vestry, will show Monocromo, paintings by Mariano Ferrante. The exhibition focuses on Ferrante’s works from the last two years and presents paintings of complex two-dimensional structures that reveal themselves as monochromes when viewed from a distance. Open through Nov. 20.