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Automania | MOMA
While NYC is loaded with museums dedicated to art, science and even sex, there’s no institution focused solely on transportation. For anyone hoping that there one day might be an east coast outpost of LA’s famed Petersen Museum, the Automania exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art offers a bit of consolation. MoMA is taking…
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Inside~Out 2021
New York City’s May 2021 NYCxDesign calendar still consisted mostly of virtual events as we continue to move beyond the worst of the pandemic. There were a few on-site events that did manage to run successfully. One furniture design exhibition taking advantage of an outdoor location was Inside~Out in the Garden. Curated by Brooklyn-based design…
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Ocean to Ocean Electrified
Can a first generation Ford electric vehicle be driven from coast to coast across the United States? That’s the challenge Ford took on to pilot a 2021 Mustang Mach-E’s from NYC to Seattle. The drive is a reimagined version of the 1909 Ocean to Ocean race, the first US transcontinental competition for motor vehicles. It…
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Strictly Tarmac | Defender 90 / XF / F-PACE
It was a welcome sign of normality returning to have an invitation to a drive program show up in my inbox from Jaguar Land Rover. Not far from NYC is JLR’s North American headquarters in Mahwah, New Jersey. So with a negative COVID test and completed vaccination card, I departed Brooklyn in a rented Honda…
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Radiator Show
May 2021 is a second subdued year for NYCxDesign. While nearly all of the programs making up NYC’s annual design week are virtual, a few in-person events have made it on the calendar. The Radiator Show held in a ground floor space at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn debuted a year after its intended…
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Broom Show
The Cooler Gallery is one of NYC’s most unique art spaces. It operates out of a repurposed industrial freezer that used to serve the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s tiny in size but that hasn’t stopped curator Michael Yarinsky from staging some impressive exhibitions around the intersection of art, design and manufacturing. Spring 2021 finds the…