Ever feel like you're being watched? That's because you probably are, at least next week if you happen to wander through Columbus Circle this Monday, when an interactive installation called "Eye Contact" takes over the facade of the Museum of Arts and Design, projecting giant, eerie eyeballs across the building. more ›

The Rubin Museum of Art is delivering something that New Yorkers need: silence. The sound installation by Bill Fontana will open June 15th and is described as "an immersive meditation experience in a sound theater set with chairs and cushions." You can get a preview in the video below—it features the sound of five Kyoto temples' bells when they are not being rung. more ›

Do you ever feel like your therapist just doesn't do enough for you these days? Wish they could get a little more...experimental with your treatment? Well, does the Guggenheim have something for you! more ›

A while back, we worried that silence was going extinct in this crazy, noise-filled world. But after listening to the way that a temporary, interactive new street-level installation called SoundAffects transforms the sounds of the streets into repetitive, strangely calming melodies, we might be okay with a bit of noise, after all. more ›

Well, that's a mouthful: meet Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis, a vegetarian with a 30-foot neck who recently arrived at the Museum of Natural History for their World’s Largest Dinosaurs exhibition (check out our pictures here). She's a real chatty Cathy, tweeting up a storm under the name Giant_Dino, but her full name is too long to tweet, so the Museum's looking for some help giving her a nickname. more ›

Artist and M.I.T. grad Jim Campbell has a new installation—Scattered Light—that was just unveiled at Madison Square Park, and which features many, many light bulbs. One part of the installation is comprised of 2,000 LEDs spanning 80-feet and displaying flickering human silhouettes when seen from a certain vantage point, according to NYCLovesNYC. more ›

Spotted this morning at 41 Grand Street in Manhattan: an incredibly dangerous looking homemade slip n' slide! This is apparently part of Recess Art's Wet Slipper installation, where visitors are told they should be prepared to shed their street clothes and don a custom bathing suit "to be reborn riding a log through the flume ride rapids." So if your morning coffee just isn't doing it for you today, head over there for a little adrenaline rush. (The slide will be up through September 2nd... or until the first injury occurs.) more ›

Last year we saw some birdhouses go up in Red Hook as part of a Department of Transportation public art project, and now more will soon be brought to the borough of Brooklyn. more ›

That Antony Gormley public art installation, that will most definitely up the 911 call count, is now being installed on rooftops around the city. All in all 31 statues of bodies will be placed on top of buildings near Madison Square Park, including the Flatiron and the Empire State Building. There will also be a few placed on the ground, but the ones that look like jumpers have authorities a little concerned. more ›

Artist Barbara Kruger has taken over the lobby at Lever House (390 Park Avenue) with what Animal calls a "dizzying display... reminiscent of the illegal ads covering vacant storefronts around the city, every surface from floor to ceiling is covered with Kruger’s bold black and white vinyl slogans." Andrew Russeth at 16 Miles paid a visit and has some great photos of the installation. While it looks amazing, it could be a little depressing for those working in the building to push their way, every day, through revolving metal doors that shout "We Forget. Another Life. Another Love." more ›

Ah, remember the good 'ol sock hop days of Governors Island? Jukeboxes blaring the latest tunes as teens gathered round milkshakes and cheeseburgers; the city skyline just off in the distance providing the perfect backdrop to the 50s soundtrack. No? You mean you don't remember the snow factory that manufactured snow year round? What an uneducated lot! more ›

The 59th Street-Columbus Circle station just got more colorful thanks to a Sol LeWitt installation, in honor of what would have been the artist's 82nd birthday. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced its completion today, and said, "The artist created the proposal in 2004, and he selected the site, which is an expansive wall facing a double wide stairway and landing at 60th Street that leads from the mezzanine to the A, B, C, D and 1 trains. Titled 'Whirls and twirls (MTA),' the artwork is 53 feet wide by 11 feet high and consists of 250 porcelain tiles, in six colors, each cut to meet the artist’s specifications." more ›

This Sunday the Bodies of Pyongyang installation was set up outside of St. Mark's Church. The project is by artist Yoonhye Park and features 20 female performers inside of a 70"x70"x70" clear plexiglass cube, all with the aim of bringing awareness to women's issues in North Korea. "These tightly packed schoolgirls try to move about the enclosed cube box expressing their emotional pain and struggle. Red strings symbolizing their dual inner states of suppression and resistance entangle the girls further confining their freedom to move within their already limited and hermetic space." The installation will be back May 2nd (Washington Square) and May 9th (Tompkins Square). more ›

Around 6 p.m., if you see a man of the cloth (followed by the press) knocking on the doors of St. Patrick's Cathedral, don't be alarmed—it'll just be the new leader of the New York Archdiocese. Archbishop Timothy Dolan will be symbolically asking New York's Roman Catholic community to accept him. more ›

Masking tape as art? Whatever! The Brooklyn Museum is making it so, however, with Sun K. Kwak's Enfolding 280 Hours installation. The New York-based artist has created her masterpiece from approximately three miles of black masking tape in the fifth-floor Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery. She began installing the piece, with help from assistants, in early February and guessed it would take around 280 hours to complete, thus the exhibit's title. more ›

The Guggenheim sent out a press release yesterday the size of The Fountainhead describing their upcoming Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward exhibition (opening in May and running through August). In celebration of the building's 50 year anniversary the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has helped them piece together the installation, which will present 64 projects designed by Wright, all displayed on the spiral ramps of the museum he designed. The CEO of the foundation says that, "Rather than a retrospective, this exhibition focuses on the diversity of Wright's vision and the ways he sought to realize it...The concept of the exhibition also reflects a growing recognition of the enormous relevance today of Frank Lloyd Wright's design philosophies, which embrace culture, technology and environment." Sad fact: Wright actually died six months prior to the grand opening of the Guggenheim. more ›

You would think MoMA would love an edgy ad campaign that draws even more attention to the museum than expected. However, following Doug Jaeger of HappyCorp's alleged involvement with Poster Boy's crew to alter their installation at the Atlantic/Pacific subway stop, they've severed all ties with the company (who created the campaign). Kim Mitchell at MoMA tells us, "No one at The Museum of Modern Art had any role in or prior knowledge of the acts of vandalism committed against posters in the Museum's installation in the Atlantic Avenue subway station. On February 27 we ended all work to be done by Doug Jaeger and thehappycorpglobal on this project and all others, and have completely severed our relationship with the company. The Museum deplores any kind of vandalism and is profoundly distressed that the posters were defaced." Prudes. No word yet on if HappyCorp has severed any ties with Poster Boy. To be continued!? more ›

The blogger behind ScoutingNY spotted what looked to be an elaborate street art piece on West 23rd between 8th and 9th avenues recently, which from afar may look like someone jumping off the ledge of a building! He's probably prompted more double-takes than unnecessary 911 calls however. The "Falling Man" is permanently attached to the Cell Theater courtesy of Craig A. Kraft. He even lights up at night! more ›