Photos via the Guggenheim Museum. Everyone's bursting with anticipation for the opening of Cai Guo-Qiang's new exhibit at the Guggenheim; the site-specific installation serves as a mid-career retrospective and is now just four short days away from being unveiled. The NY Times has a lengthy profile of the artist (who has lived in New York since 1995) which begins with this insight: "his favorite artistic moment is the pregnant pause between the lighting of......

Bundle up: Arctic air is coming in and it'll be very cold tonight - WABC 7 says "by midnight it will be 18 degrees with a wind chill of zero degrees" - and tomorrow Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: airplane emergency at JFK, a stolen armored car in Queens, and a bank robbery in Midtown. Has Exxon been dumping "100 million gallons of partially treated ground water - water laced with the known carcinogen......

We've experienced seven droughts in the last 40 years. Our most recent one was in January, 2003. You know the drill, the city says we're in some stage of a drought emergency which means we can't water our lawns or fill our pools except when it's 3am on the 2nd wednesday and a new moon. Seriously though, Gothamist seriously doubts anyone besides the city's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) employees know exactly what the......