The Night Heron: Illegal Speakeasy Pops Up Inside a Chelsea Water Tower

The Night Heron: Illegal Speakeasy Pops Up Inside a Chelsea Water Tower

Looking up at this nondescript Chelsea water tower, you'd never guess there was a party going on inside! Called "The Night Heron", the illegal speakeasy popped up for just a short time this spring. The private, invite-only fête was dreamed up by Wanderlust Projects, which curates unique experiences that take place at unlikely locations. Click through the gallery below to see more photos of this swinging example of adaptive reuse.
 

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Antonin Forneau’s Interactive Water Graffiti Display Lets You Paint with LED Light

Antonin Forneau’s Interactive Water Graffiti Display Lets You Paint with LED Light

You may think that mixing water and electricity is a no no, but for French artist Antonin Fourneau it’s a recipe for art. Fourneau wowed us last summer with his LED Water Light Graffiti installation, which lights up when it's exposed to water - and the traveling installation just made its NYC debut last week at the GROHE showroom during New York Design Week. Click through the gallery below to check out this fun piece of interactive art in action.
 

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Imran Qureshi’s “Blood-Splattered” Exhibit Paints The Met’s Rooftop Garden Red

Imran Qureshi’s “Blood-Splattered” Exhibit Paints The Met’s Rooftop Garden Red

While relaxing on a rooftop garden doesn’t usually conjure up images of a murder scene, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s terrace has combined the two very opposite ideas with its new “blood-splattered” exhibit by Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi. The Roof

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Battery Park Conservancy Announces 50 Mobile Seating Designs for Its “Draw Up a Chair” Competition

Battery Park Conservancy Announces 50 Mobile Seating Designs for Its “Draw Up a Chair” Competition

The Battery Conservancy and NYC Parks recently selected the top 50 designs for their “Draw Up a Chair” design competition. The challenge called on students and professionals from around the world to design an iconic movable outdoor seating element for Manhattan’s Battery Park, and the jury will soon select a winner from the 50 contestants. Click through the gallery above see a selection of the designs in the running to become actual chairs in Battery Park!
 

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New Museum Censors Controversial Crytome Posters Questioning Gentrification of the Bowery

New Museum Censors Controversial Crytome Posters Questioning Gentrification of the Bowery

When architects John Young and Deborah Natsios of Cryptome were asked to create a work of art in collaboration with the New Museum and the Bowery Mission to debut at this past weekend's StreetFest, they didn't expect to be censored. The series of eight crafted panels-- titled “Partywall”-- questioned the relationship between the Bowery Mission, its neighbor the New Museum, and the rapidly changing character of the Bowery. Unfortunately, the artwork never made it in front of the street festival audience. The eight Partywall panels were installed April 30 and were still in place at 3pm May 2, over 48hrs later. They were removed sometime in the following 24hrs, by 1pm May 3, after Young and Natsios we were told by Bowery Mission that the New Museum had sent them an email questioning the project.
 

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“Under the Elevated” Seeks to Transform Space Beneath NYC Bridges and Subways into Usable, Non-Scary Areas

“Under the Elevated” Seeks to Transform Space Beneath NYC Bridges and Subways into Usable, Non-Scary Areas

The High Line made a name for itself by turning land atop an elevated rail line into a flourishing park, but can the same be done for spaces underneath these kinds of structures? The Design Trust for Public Space is embarking on a plan to transform areas under

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NY <3 Boston: Illuminated Messages of Support for Boston Victims Light Up Brooklyn Academy of Music

NY <3 Boston: Illuminated Messages of Support for Boston Victims Light Up Brooklyn Academy of Music

As the entire world mourns the victims of the Boston Marathon explosions that claimed the lives of three people and injured hundreds, one Brooklyn neighborhood decided to shine a little light in the midst of the darkness. This week, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Peter Jay Sharp building was transformed into a canvas of positive messages showing New York's support for Boston. Illuminating light art projected onto the building displayed a streaming loop of quotes from “Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness, Only Light Can Do That” to the simple but powerful "NY <3 B".
 

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9/11 Memorial Adds Service Fee, Victims’ Families Aren’t Buying It

9/11 Memorial Adds Service Fee, Victims’ Families Aren’t Buying It

Despite having received over $300 million in tax-funded grants and $400 million in private donations, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum will now be charging visitors a $2 service fee to enter the museum. The fee, which went into effect last month,

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Toshihiro Oki Architects Win Folly Garden Competition with Fanciful Design for Socrates Sculpture Park

Toshihiro Oki Architects Win Folly Garden Competition with Fanciful Design for Socrates Sculpture Park

Now in its second year, the Folly Competition – a two-month residency project sponsored by the Architectural League of New York and Socrates Sculpture Park that explores the tradition of 18th and 19th century folly gardens – has announced a winner. Toshihiro

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NYC AIDS Memorial Loses Plants But Gains Community Support

NYC AIDS Memorial Loses Plants But Gains Community Support

Plans for the New York City AIDS memorial honoring the city’s 100,000+ men, women and children who have succumbed to the disease in the last thirty years have been reimagined with a more streamlined design. Brooklyn architecture studio a+i originally covered their design with English ivy, Virginia creeper and honeysuckle, but took the wishes of the community into account and put the kibosh on the greens. The new plant-less plan means that the memorial would be able to maintain a beautiful aesthetic all year-round.
 

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Newark Students Recreate Van Gogh’s Starry Night Using 5,000 Bottle Caps

Newark Students Recreate Van Gogh’s Starry Night Using 5,000 Bottle Caps

Students at South Street Elementary School in Newark, New Jersey are both artists and conservationists. After collecting over 5,000 bottle caps in their local community, the students arranged the caps into an eco-friendly 8-foot by 12-foot rendition of Vincent

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Recalling 1993: NYC’s New Museum Transforms Old Pay Phones into Portals to the City’s Past

Recalling 1993: NYC’s New Museum Transforms Old Pay Phones into Portals to the City’s Past

The New Museum has hijacked the city’s pay phones and transformed them into time machines that allow city-dwellers to make calls 20 years into New York’s past. Anyone strolling along Manhattan’s streets can now walk up to a pay phone, dial 1-855-FOR-1993,

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“Heartwalk” Sculpture Made of Hurricane Sandy Wood Gets New Home in Brooklyn

“Heartwalk” Sculpture Made of Hurricane Sandy Wood Gets New Home in Brooklyn

If you missed your chance to see Heartwalk, a heart-shaped pavilion made from Hurricane Sandy-salvaged wood, while it was in Times Square, you can still catch it while it's at its new location. The expressive sculpture now sits proudly on the Pearl Street Triangle in DUMBO, Brooklyn, where both visitors and locals have been having a ball stepping into its warm embrace. The pavilion will be on display at this location until April 30th.
 

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Starving Artists Project Turns Cardboard Signs From NYC’s Homeless into Art for Social Change

Starving Artists Project Turns Cardboard Signs From NYC’s Homeless into Art for Social Change

They are part of New York City’s invisible culture. They ride the trains to stay warm, set up camp in transportation hubs and plead for city dwellers to spare some cash or food. Yet, despite their massive presence, the homeless are widely ignored. Now a new initiative, the Starving Artists Project, is trying to change all of that by giving NYC’s homeless community a platform to showcase their cries for help. The program seeks to turn the cardboard signs we see being held up on street corners and in subway stations into art that funds social change.
 

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Curious Bookshelf Grows Out of Fallen Trees

Curious Bookshelf Grows Out of Fallen Trees

If you feel like this curious bookshelf looks like it’s growing right out of tree trunks, you’re not far off from the truth. Cazenovia, New York-based artist David Harper created the installation, which he calls “STACKS”, by recycling fallen logs. Built

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PHOTOS: Okamoto Studio Carves Incredibly Intricate Ice Sculptures in Downtown Manhattan

PHOTOS: Okamoto Studio Carves Incredibly Intricate Ice Sculptures in Downtown Manhattan

Okamoto Studio was on site at the World Financial Center's outdoor plaza this weekend showcasing their deft ice-carving skills. The live demonstrations resulted in a series of ice sculptures that made up a spectacular "Fantastical Botanical" scene for the public to enjoy. Supported by Arts Brookfield, six carvers were hard at work with chisels and chainsaws, creating an ice garden of delights like a frozen water vase filled with bamboo and even an icy birdbath.
 

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