Holy BOS! Arts Festival Transforms a Gothic Church into Art Venue in Bushwick

Holy BOS! Arts Festival Transforms a Gothic Church into Art Venue in Bushwick

In celebration of Bushwick Open Studios, the Holy BOS! Festival took over a historic neighborhood neo-Gothic church for a weekend of art, music, film and dance. The gorgeous red brick church, built in 1892, has become home to the Bobby Redd project space, hosting arty events inside the former church walls. The arched ceilings, original pews, altar and organ are given new life with each exhibition and performance.
 

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Artist Nina Boesch Recycles Disused MetroCards into Moving Scenes of New York

Artist Nina Boesch Recycles Disused MetroCards into Moving Scenes of New York

New York based artist Nina Boesch’s dimensional mosaics are made entirely from recycled Metrocards. The expired cards are transformed into familiar NYC scenes - yellow taxis, skylines, subways and even Mayor Bloomberg's face! Boesch impressively brings these vignettes to life using only the colors and patterns found on the iconic yellow cards.
 

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CHERYL to Bring Its Roving Mobile Dance Party to the Streets of NYC

CHERYL to Bring Its Roving Mobile Dance Party to the Streets of NYC

We’ve seen mobile pools and roving art galleries on the streets of New York and now it looks like we can add moving dance parties to the list too! Crazy performance art group CHERYL wants to bring their traveling dance shindigs to the sidewalks of the city

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Help The Water Tank Project Turn NYC Water Towers into Art!

Help The Water Tank Project Turn NYC Water Towers into Art!

We’ve written about the Water Tank Project – an initiative to transform some of NYC’s most iconic structures into revolutionary, water-themed art – and now they need your help to bring their vision to fruition! They recently launched a Kickstarter campaign

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Tom Fruin’s Multi-Colored Plexiglass Watertower Glitters on a DUMBO Rooftop

Tom Fruin’s Multi-Colored Plexiglass Watertower Glitters on a DUMBO Rooftop

New Yorkers who pass by DUMBO on their way to work may have noticed a sparkling new addition to the Brooklyn skyline - Tom Fruin’s “Watertower.” The multi-colored water tank is made of colorful salvaged sheets of plexiglass and catches light high above the rooftops. Fruin collected the rainbow-hued pieces from building sites around New York City before using them to reinterpret the gritty water tower into a version of the iconic structure we've never seen before.
 

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FIGMENT NYC Brings Free Participatory Art to Governors Island This Weekend

FIGMENT NYC Brings Free Participatory Art to Governors Island This Weekend

Looking for a way to get your creative energy fired up? FIGMENT NYC 2012 is returning to Governors Island this weekend! This free, family-friendly and participatory event will fill the island with more than 200 interactive art projects – many of them made

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FIGMENT NYC Art Festival on Governors Island

FIGMENT NYC Art Festival on Governors Island

Get your creative energy fired up at FIGMENT NYC 2012 this weekend. This free, family-friendly and participatory art event will fill Governors Island with more than 200 interactive projects.

Founded in 2007 in New York City with a handful of projects, FIGMENT

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Patrick Lundeen Transforms Old MAD Magazines Into Creepy Monster Masks

Patrick Lundeen Transforms Old MAD Magazines Into Creepy Monster Masks

Artist Patrick Lundeen collects discarded rugs, posters and MAD magazine pages and transforms them into a cast of spooky masks. Lundeen's larger than life faces combine collaged elements with traditional canvas and paint to conjure up images of monsters, outsider art, and Coney Island freakshows. For those who want to get a close up look at these gnarly found art faces, they will be on display in Chelsea, New York starting June 21st.
 

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Uhuru Creates Neat School-Inspired Desks Out of Reclaimed NYC Wood

Uhuru Creates Neat School-Inspired Desks Out of Reclaimed NYC Wood

Looks like wood recyclers extraordinaire Uhuru have done it again, this time with a neat new school-inspired desk revealed at 12 x 12 during New York Design Week. The exhibition showcased 12 contemporary furniture designers who worked with reclaimed lumber from 12 demolished NYC locations, and Uhuru's task was transforming scaffolding wood from PS 017 Henry David Thoreau School in Long Island City. Founders Jason Horvath and Bill Hilgendorf said they were inspired by the educational roots of this wood and that's why they decided to make an updated school desk.
 

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The High Line Zoo is a Glow-in-the-Dark Animal Menagerie Along the Elevated Park

The High Line Zoo is a Glow-in-the-Dark Animal Menagerie Along the Elevated Park

Just when you think people that live around the High Line couldn't get any weirder, someone goes and makes a glow-in-the-dark zoo in the neighborhood. The multi-colored menagerie, simply known as the High Line Zoo, popped up recently on a Chelsea rooftop along the famous elevated park and offers up an abstract assortment of 2-D animals for passersby. Dreamed up by artists Sun Bae, Jordan Betten and Stuart Braunstein, the psychedelic sculpture garden is even wilder at night when it comes to life with lights, sounds and video.
 

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PHOTOS: The FARMacy Vertical Farm Pops Up at Socrates Sculpture Park!

PHOTOS: The FARMacy Vertical Farm Pops Up at Socrates Sculpture Park!

Art and farming have come together for Natalie Jeremijenko’s sky-high vertical farm, which is the latest exhibition at Long Island City’s Socrates Sculpture Park! Head on over to the waterfront park, bring a picnic, and enjoy “Farmacy,” a collection of edible, hanging gardens. Inhabitat spent an afternoon wandering the grounds and got our hands on some of the AgBags the artist used to create a vertical farm perfect for city living. Read on to see all of our pics!
 

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PHOTOS: We Go Gaga for the Great GoogaMooga’s Carnival-Inspired Green Design

PHOTOS: We Go Gaga for the Great GoogaMooga’s Carnival-Inspired Green Design

What seemed like a googol New Yorkers came out in gaggles for the Great GoogaMooga, a festival of food and fun that took over Brooklyn's Prospect Park last weekend. Googling "GoogaMooga" will lead you to many reviews of the festival's music and cuisine (some cheerfully positive and others not so upbeat), but what we were most interested in for Inhabitat NYC was the fact that many of the cool, carnival-inspired booth designs were made of reclaimed and salvaged materials. Read on to see which green GoogaMooga designs had us going gaga, as well as other earth-friendly considerations the organizers and acclaimed architect David Rockwell put into play at the much-talked-about event.
 

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20 Years Of Bryant Park Photo Exhibit

20 Years Of Bryant Park Photo Exhibit

View photographs of Bryant Park’s dramatic transformation from the Bryant Park archives. More than 50 images covering the park’s dynamic and rich history will be adorning the park’s perimeter fence, so stop by for a free history lesson on this beloved space.

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Verdant PicNYC Table is Topped with Living Growing Grass

Verdant PicNYC Table is Topped with Living Growing Grass

Who needs Central Park when you've got a grass-topped table that makes every meal a picnic? Okay, we still love Central Park, but on days when you can't go out to play, Haiko Cornelissen's PicNYC Table is a breath of fresh air. Unlike other faux foliage-filled designs we've seen, the PicNYC table features living, growing greenery, and you aren't just limited to growing grass. Spotted at the Wanted Design exhibition during NY Design Week, the clever double-duty piece can be planted with flowers or even herbs to pick and sprinkle right onto your meal.
 

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Justin Gingras Transforms NYC Trash into Art with his Garbage Cubes

Justin Gingras Transforms NYC Trash into Art with his Garbage Cubes

Artist Justin Gignac is turning trash into treasure. The New Yorker has been collecting trash off of Manhattan’s streets over the past ten years, and transforming it into sellable art works. Gignac jams a handful of colorful trash into a plastic cube, pricing buyers $50 for each sculptural piece.
 

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MoMA Wants Your Old Junk For Their New Meta-Monumental Garage Sale Exhibit

MoMA Wants Your Old Junk For Their New Meta-Monumental Garage Sale Exhibit

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If you haven’t gotten around to getting that garage sale together to sell your old junk, it could end up as part of something even greater –  MoMA’s next art exhibition! The museum has put out a plea for people’s old stuff, specifically

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Takeshi Miyakawa Arrested After His Light Installations Are Mistaken For Bombs During NYDW

Takeshi Miyakawa Arrested After His Light Installations Are Mistaken For Bombs During NYDW

Designers across the city have been attracting furniture and art-lovers with their work during New York Design Week, but a series of sculptural installations by Takeshi Miyakawa caught some rather unwanted attention – the NYPD’s. The I LOVE NY shopping bag-shaped

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Farmacy: Edible Vertical Farms Come to Long Island City’s Socrates Sculpture Park

Farmacy: Edible Vertical Farms Come to Long Island City’s Socrates Sculpture Park

If you love the vertical farms you see on Inhabitat but have never experienced one in real life, head on over to Long Island City’s Socrates Sculpture Park as soon as possible! The park is known for its innovative outdoor art installations and its newest one, “Farmacy” by artist Natalie Jeremijenko, infuses the park with edible crops hung to create a portable vertical garden.
 

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PHOTOS: Tomas Saraceno’s Geodesic ‘Cloud City’ Floats Above the Roof of the Met Museum

PHOTOS: Tomas Saraceno’s Geodesic ‘Cloud City’ Floats Above the Roof of the Met Museum

Yesterday's gray sky and drizzle couldn't keep anxious press away from the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art where Argentine artist and architect Tomas Saraceno was officially debuting his new project "Cloud City". A sculptural constellation of 16 geodesic pods, Cloud City "floats" above the museum's roof anchored by steel cables that keep the structure from flying off into orbit. The futuristic construction features over 100 planes, either shiny, mirrored, transparent, or open to the air. Navigating the structure is disorienting to say the least (think mirrored fun house), but thrilling, unexpected vantage points turn the spinning and sensation of weightlessness into a worthwhile journey. Beyond its incredible form, Cloud City beautifully reflects surrounding Manhattan, highlighting everything from the lush greenery of Central Park to the entire skyline of New York in one mirrored object. Cloud City opens to the public today, but get your first look through us here!
 

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PHOTOS: Whitney Museum Adds a New Shipping Container Art Studio Designed by LOT-EK

PHOTOS: Whitney Museum Adds a New Shipping Container Art Studio Designed by LOT-EK

This week the Whitney Museum inaugurated a brand new exhibition and studio space designed by shipping container architects-extraordinaire LOT-EK. The ultra-modern and eco-friendly addition complements the museum's 1960s concrete brutalist construction. It was commissioned by the Whitney as a space where the museum could hold special exhibits and activities for the Whitney education program, which includes art-making classes and informal lectures. To build the Whitney Studio LOT-EK joined six recycled shipping containers into one unique black cube with a dynamic fenestration.
 

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Chuck Close and Sarah Sze to Create Site-Specific Artwork for Second Avenue Subway

Chuck Close and Sarah Sze to Create Site-Specific Artwork for Second Avenue Subway

The troubled Second Avenue Subway line might be taking forever to complete, but at least we know that when it’s finally done, it’ll be done in style. MTA’s Arts for Transit will be calling in some heavy art world hitters to adorn the line’s stations –

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Yuki Agematsu Transforms Trash From New York’s Streets into Miniature Sculptures

Yuki Agematsu Transforms Trash From New York’s Streets into Miniature Sculptures

Yuki Agematsu's miniature archives of discarded objects look more like carefully curated displays than collections of New York City's garbage. Agematsu finds beauty in the grotesque as he transforms plastic bags into colorful sculptural pieces. The series forms Agematsu's most recent collection of works, which were a stand out show at this past weekend's NADA Art Fair.
 

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Ernesto Neto Weaves Rope Into Giant Rainbow-Colored Spiderwebs That Visitors Can Climb On

Ernesto Neto Weaves Rope Into Giant Rainbow-Colored Spiderwebs That Visitors Can Climb On

Chelsea’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is inviting visitors to come walk, jump and play on Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s giant rainbow-colored spiderwebs made of rope. The colorful nets hang as suspended winding tunnels throughout the gallery, giving adults and kids alike the opportunity to test their sense of balance. The show, entitled “Slow iis goood,” transforms multi-colored spools of rope into a floating organic landscape inside the gallery’s rooms.
 

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Street Seats: Abandoned Chairs Given a Taxicab Yellow Facelift for the Armory Show

Street Seats: Abandoned Chairs Given a Taxicab Yellow Facelift for the Armory Show

For a new collection called Street Seats, Bade Stageberg Cox turned a handful ho-hum chairs found scattered around New York City into a stylish series of 50 bright yellow chairs. Cox repaired and coated each seat with a lick of taxicab-yellow paint, giving

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Take the Ferry to First-Ever Frieze New York Art Fair this Weekend

Take the Ferry to First-Ever Frieze New York Art Fair this Weekend

Yesterday, Inhabitat took the fair-sanctioned ferry across the East River to Randall’s Island for the first ever Frieze New York Art Fair. With a sprawling temporary pavilion designed by SO-IL, the fair brings 180 of the world’s finest art galleries to New York. The fair invaded the western shore of the island, hugging the East River and offering visitors views of the New York skyline.
 

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