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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Shipping Container Village ‘Photoville’ Coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park this Summer

Shipping Container Village ‘Photoville’ Coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park this Summer

This summer, photography lovers will be treated to a unique experience: United Photo Industries’ pop-up Photoville, which lands in Brooklyn Bridge Park on June 22. The innovative photography experience will transform 30 shipping containers into a village

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Monet’s French Gardens Recreated Inside The Hole NYC Art Gallery

Monet’s French Gardens Recreated Inside The Hole NYC Art Gallery

Artists E.V. Day and Kembra Pfahler have transformed the Bowery’s Hole Gallery into a lush indoor park, complete with fresh grass, fragrant flowers, and even a pond! Inspired by the French gardens Claude Monet immortalized in his paintings, the exhibition features photographs taken in the gardens of Giverny, hung amidst the lilypads, vines, hyacinths, and willow trees planted within the gallery. The collaborative exhibition welcomes guests to experiences a taste of the French countryside right in the East Village.
 

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Photos: Katharine Harvey’s Glittering Plastic “Chandelier” is Made from 1,000s of Pieces of Garbage

Photos: Katharine Harvey’s Glittering Plastic “Chandelier” is Made from 1,000s of Pieces of Garbage

Made from glittering strands of plastic garbage, artist Katharine Harvey's massive "Chandelier" has made its way to downtown New York just in time for Earth Day. The artist strung together water bottles, sandwich trays, muffin tins, salad boxes, egg cartons, and other trash to create the almost crystalline 21-foot tall and 15-foot wide sculpture, which currently hangs in the World Financial Center Winter Garden. Commenting on the "glut of plastic in consumer society," the deceptively beautiful light fixture will be on display from April 15th through May 11th, suspended above a luxurious marble staircase.
 

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Statue of Liberty to Re-Open in Late 2012 With Artist Residency Program

Statue of Liberty to Re-Open in Late 2012 With Artist Residency Program

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On the heels of a $27 million dollar makeover, the Statue of Liberty plans to re-open in style. In a collaboration with the National Park Service and New Jersey City University, Lady Liberty is offering a unique chance for a few artists to

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Curious Irish Hunger Memorial is a Green-Roofed Monument in Battery Park City

Curious Irish Hunger Memorial is a Green-Roofed Monument in Battery Park City

Even the most been-there-done-that New Yorkers might find themselves surprised to stumble upon the Irish Hunger Memorial, a sloping patch of wild grass that protrudes from Vesey Street and conceals one of the city's hidden gems beneath. Designed by artist Brian Tolle, landscape artist Gail Wittwer-Laird and 1100 Architect, the green-roofed monument entices passersby with its curiously overgrown field and, once they are inside, educates them about the Great Irish Famine and Migration of 1845-1852, a devastating event which actually led many Irishmen to make New York their new home. Comprised of an elevated limestone plinth supported by stones from each of Ireland's 32 counties, the beautiful structure contains a dark passageway that eventually leads to an idyllic knoll that reaches towards Ellis Island, symbolizing the new beginning that many Irish found in America.
 

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Chad Person Makes Mythical Beasts and Military Vehicles from Sliced Dollar Bills

Chad Person Makes Mythical Beasts and Military Vehicles from Sliced Dollar Bills

Artist Chad Person transposes the issues of economic, political, and societal power with his commanding collages. Composed from fine fragments of cut United States currency, the collages portray military vehicles, mythological scenes, and phrases. Person manipulates the tones and patterns on each bank note to illustrate his meticulous scenes.
 

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New York Flower Show: 30 Greenery-Topped Tablescapes Fill a Manhattan Ballroom with Blooms

New York Flower Show: 30 Greenery-Topped Tablescapes Fill a Manhattan Ballroom with Blooms

Fashion and flowers overtook 583 Park Avenue last week for The Horticultural Society of New York's magical showcase of greenery-topped tables and fantastical floral arrangements. Taking just one day to complete their task, 30 different New York designers filled the Delano & Aldrich-designed architectural gem with their lavish creations reflecting this year's theme of “Couture en Fleur." Tying in everything from 1920s Paris fashion to Alexander McQueen's book "Savage Beast" to the over-the-top visuals of Cirque du Soleil, the fanciful tablescapes featured moss-covered mannequins, gowns made of botanical buds and more.
 

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First Street Green Park in the East Village Opens a Season of Cultural Programming on Earth Day

First Street Green Park in the East Village Opens a Season of Cultural Programming on Earth Day

Celebrate this upcoming Earth Day at the new First Street Green Park with a bash that also launches their season of programming. Taking over the now vacant lot that hosted the BMW Guggenheim Lab last year, the alley joins NYC’s Department of Parks and Recreation

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Alison Knowles Will Make a Giant Salad on the High Line & You’re Invited to Eat it!

Alison Knowles Will Make a Giant Salad on the High Line & You’re Invited to Eat it!

How will you be celebrating Earth Day this weekend? Perhaps the tastiest event in NYC will be taking place this Sunday, April 22 on the High Line, where artist Alison Knowles will be staging an art historical performance. The artist, who was part of the Fluxus

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‘Born Out of Necessity’ at MoMA Seeks Solutions for Pressing Problem Through Innovative Design

‘Born Out of Necessity’ at MoMA Seeks Solutions for Pressing Problem Through Innovative Design

The latest exhibit from the Museum of Modern Art’s Architecture and Design Department gathers together pieces that touch upon the broad idea of problem-solving through design. Featuring products designed to address real life concerns ranging from those faced by developing nations to modern urban environments, "Born Out of Necessity" brings together devices created to remediate problems and make life easier. From futuristic prototypes for foraging to simplistic plastics that help create clean water, the works show leading designers’ innovative solutions to pressing and universal problems, like the need to live more sustainably and help underprivileged peoples.
 

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Patrick Blanc’s Gorgeous Vertical Gardens Flank the 10th Annual Orchid Show at NYBG

Patrick Blanc’s Gorgeous Vertical Gardens Flank the 10th Annual Orchid Show at NYBG

Spring is here, and the New York Botanical Garden’s annual Orchid Show is in full bloom. Now in its tenth year, the show features gorgeous vertical gardens this year, carefully curated by French botanist Patrick Blanc. The gardens transform the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory into an orchid wonderland, complete with colorful blooms, feathery ferns and exotic plants. Planning to visit the show yourself? Inhabitat readers get 20% off admission - click through for details!
 

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