From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…
Read MoreFrom time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…
Read MoreThe Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…
Read MoreTadashi Kawamata latest installation from his ongoing work of tree huts is taking place at Madison Square Park. He is best known for his site specific installations that explores urban environments, juxtaposing established architectural elements with shanty-like structures. While this work may appear more fitting in its environment, Kawamata’s wooden structures have flourished around lamp posts as well as classical and modern buildings. Tadashi Kawamata: Tree Huts, will be open to the public on October 2nd running through to the end of the year.
Madison Square Park
New York, New York
For the past three years from September 2005 to July 2008 the Guggenheim underwent an extensive restoration to Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic building. To compliment the completion of the restoration, the Guggenheim has commissioned Jenny Holzer to create a site specific piece.
1071 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10128
212-423-3500
Fri 6–11pm
Jenny Holzer’s pioneering approach to language as a carrier of content and her use of nontraditional media and public settings as vehicles for that content make her one of the most interesting and significant artists working today.
945 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021
212-570-3600
Wed–Thur: 11am–6pm
Fri: 1–9pm (6–9 pm pay-what-you-wish admission)
Sat–Sun: 11am–6pm
Mon-Tues: Closed
Nylon stalactites. Biomorphic spice sacks. Pools of plastic balls. These are some ways to begin describing Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s installation, Anthropodio, that launches Park Avenue Armory’s series of site-specific commissions. To begin only; one truly needs to experience this multi-sensory interactive environment in person to gain any sense of what it is.
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
(212) 616-3930
Tues-Fri: 12pm–8pm
Sat-Mon: 12pm–6pm
Memorial Day: 12pm–6pm
Regardless of your preconceptions of Picasso, the one thing you can expect from Picasso: Mosqueteros, the ambitious show of the artist’s late work currently on view at Gagosian Gallery, is to have your expectations trumped. The sheer scale of the show itself and the strength of the work from the often-overlooked last decade of Picasso’s life are nothing short of impressive. Be sure to spend time with the series of delightfully whimsical and rich works on paper, which his dramatic canvases can easily overshadow.
522 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10011
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
Roxy Paine has made himself known to many New York pedestrians at ground-level with his striking series of outdoor sculptures—Conjoined, Defunct and Erratic, the three elegant stainless steel tree sculptures that graced Madison Square Park in 2007, and Bluff, a 50-foot-tall stainless steel tree that stood in Central Park as part of a collaboration with the 2002 Whitney Biennial.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Monday: Closed
Tues–Thurs: 9:30am–5:30pm
Fri-Sat: 9:30am–9:00pm
Sun: 9:30am–5:30pm