Plus family theater at BMCC's Tribeca Performing Arts Center; Nitemind opens at the Seaport; Parkour in Battery Park City; an escape room on Governors focused on climate change. / 3 comments
Plus new stretch studio - Outer Reach - opens on Greenwich; Japanese on Warren is coming along; Meryl Streep's digs on Laight are relisted and reduced in price.
After 15 years in the art world, these two are doing things a little different: no press releases, no openings, no dinners, no representation. Just art, every week, over and over again.
Plus the Downtown Community Center will host an open house; Smorgasburg adds tunes from 2 to 7 on Fridays; free movies on Fosun's Plaza starting this Thursday.
It's a repro of the Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church from 1887 titled "Niagara Falls, from the American Side" and it's almost as big as the original that can now be found in Scotland. / 3 comments
Local resident Richard Serra has three upcoming exhibitions: two at Gagosian galleries showing new sculpture and works on paper, and a the unveiling of a monumental piece at MoMA.
Plus a local resident's new play addresses pregnancy and motherhood; last chance for 20 percent off at Crown Shy; new fast casual pasta in Fidi; a local lecture about The Plaza.
This is the first major exhibition of outdoor sculptures by New York-based artist Carmen Herrera, who, at 104, is considered to be “the missing link in global modernism.”
Plus inside the Museum of Future Experiences; another Tribeca art gallery; WeWork moving in to 83 Maiden.
Plus fighter jets over the Hudson; park vendors lose a legal battle; Meryl Streep's still trying to sell penthouse.
Plus new bar from David Chang's Momofuko operation opens at Pier 17; string trio performs in Rockefeller Park; sounds of India family workshop this weekend. / 1 comment
The latest in photographer Claudine Williams's series of Q&As with people in the arts: Jennifer Elster, an experimental artist, director, performer and the founder of The Development. / 1 comment
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