Summer Streets 2013: NYC’s Annual 7-Mile Block Party!
Summer Streets, those three glorious Saturdays in August when cars are banned from stretches of Manhattan’s great boulevards and pedestrians and cyclists take over, is back again for it’s sixth year in a row.

5 Ways to Cool Off in New York City
July is awesome in New York City because of all the great block parties, outdoor festivals and free concerts, and also because EVERY month is awesome in New York City. But it does get hot here in July, no question… in fact, it looks like we’re going to get at least ten days of 90-plus […]

Fantastic Vintage French Carnival Rides On Governors Island
If you have yet to make it over to Governors Island this summer, or are looking for an excuse to get on the ferry and bring your crew back to that most excellent NYC public space, the fabulous new Fete Paradiso offers all the incentive you need.

MoviePass: For $35 a Month Get Unlimited Movies at (Almost) Every NYC Theatre
I go to a lot of movies, in a lot of different theaters, in neighborhoods all over Manhattan and Brooklyn. And by a lot I mean around 120 a year, which is about 10 a month, or 2 or 3 every week. I see documentaries and art films, Hollywood blockbusters and rom-coms, foreign films, indie […]

Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective Exhibition at the Met
With the Met's annual Roof Garden installation feeling less "festive vacation" this year and more "blood-splattered crime scene" (not to mention that the season's big fashion exhibition, Punk: Chaos to Couture, is just depressing for anyone who lived through or still cares about that era), it's nice that at least one of the museum's summer […]

James Turrell Transforms Guggenheim Into Something Wonderful
Not since Maurizio Cattelan dangled his entire oeuvre from the oculus has a single artist so transformed the Guggenheim's iconic interior into something all his own.

MoMA PS1: Warm Up 2013 is the Summer’s Best Dance Party!
Every Saturday afternoon, all summer long, the normally tranquil courtyard at MoMA PS1 explodes with music, joy, sweat, dancing, awesome design, cool water, beer, happy children, tasty food, good-looking grownups, art, and lots of laughter. That's right, it's Warm Up time again in Long Island City!

Imran Qureshi Splatters The Met’s Roof Garden For This Summer’s Exhibition
After several summers of elaborate crowd pleasers on the Met's Roof Garden–think Tomas Saraceno's mirrored honeycomb Cloud City last year, and Doug and Mike Starn's soaring bamboo jungle Big Bambu in 2010, both of which almost felt like playground equipment, in a good way–the museum gets far more subdued (and totally 2D) in 2013 with […]

Whitney Museum Summer Exhibitions: Edward Hopper and David Hockney
Each time I visit the Whitney in its soon-to-be departed Upper East Side home, I’m struck by how appealingly low-key this place is, especially as compared to those nearby cultural behemoths, MoMA and the Met. Not that the Whitney is a sleepy institution by any means and the opening of its downtown location will surely […]

Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing 2013 Kicks Off Next Week!
Lincoln Center's great participatory performance series Midsummer Night Swing starts up again on June 25, and man are we ready to MOVE! Held in Damrosch Park on 15 nights over the course of three consecutive weeks, Midsummer Night Swing is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year (here are some pictures from last year).