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Are We Home Yet? | Contemporary Flea
I didn’t know what to expect while on the double river crossing from Brooklyn to Jersey City to check out a car meet/flea market. It was a worthwhile trip and reminder that Manhattan to Jersey City is a sub 10 minute train ride yet mentally seems a vast distance away. A Contemporary Flea is an…
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Bagus Pandega | Daya Benda
The Swiss Institute located in NYC’s East Village is the site for Indonesian artist Bagus Pandega’s first institutional exhibition, Daya Benda. On the surface, the installations create a cyberpunk atmosphere combining biological samples, electronics, a techno soundtrack and a custom neon-hued electric drag bike. For me, it checks a lot of boxes. But beyond the…
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Larry Bell | Improvisations In The Park
NYC’s Madison Square Park has hosted excellent art commissions and exhibitions over the decades. For the ’25/’26 winter season, Larry Bell has installed six sculptures made of chromatic glass that form a visual conversation with the surrounding greenery and cityscape. I visited Improvisations in the Park a few days after it opened, on a bright…
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Street Parked | 34th St. Helipad
Street Parked is a NYC car meetup series organized by automotive creative agency 24helps. The events bring the community together to support the positive side of the scene and local business partners. Previous iterations have occurred on Brooklyn streets. For the first early fall date in Manhattan, Street Parked took over a normally forbidden pad…
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Calder Gardens
Museums and galleries, try as they do to be different, generally all end up conforming to the same presentation format. Less common and usually more interesting are environments and structures developed to house and present the work of a single artist. In NYC, an often overlooked but worth visiting is the Noguchi Museum in Queens.…
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2025 Porsche CRC
Established in 2020, the Porsche Classic Restoration Challenge aims to revive vintage Porsche cars with issues and get them back on the road. The annual challenge pits the technicians at North American Porsche dealerships against each other to win a national title. A collection of the 2025 entrants were displayed along with some local Porsche…