People often say, “I have heard this name all my life,” about Park Avenue, but few can actually explain what is there. Yet it is one of the most prestigious streets in Manhattan, running through the center of the city from north to south. It is home to major corporate headquarters and some of the…
The gardening season is just around the corner, so let’s talk about… garden trowels! One of them — five meters tall — stands right next to Lever House on Park Avenue. Plantoir, Red: what is this sculpture? Plantoir, Red is a garden tool scaled up to about three times human height, created by the vibrant…
New York is an extraordinary city — perhaps the only place where people from around 200 different countries can feel at home, even if they don’t speak English. I’m one of those millions, and for a simple reason: just like in my hometown, there’s a statue of Lenin in New York. For the first few…
Vessel is a unique architectural structure in New York City, created by British designer Thomas Heatherwick. Its shape resembles a honeycomb or an inverted cone, making it one of the most unusual landmarks in the city. However, due to its complex structure, Vessel has repeatedly been criticized as unsafe and inaccessible for people with disabilities….
When you first arrive in New York, all you want is to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and through Central Park. After living in New York for a few years, you start appreciating things that are more unusual — like the Noguchi Museum. My level of nerdiness: deliberately going to the Hyatt Grand Central New…
It’s starting to feel like we’re putting together a guide to sculpture parks in New York State, which is a great excuse to stretch the geography beyond the star-powered city and into the much quieter state around it. After the epic Storm King and the clever, tongue-in-cheek Turn Park, we want to talk about Omi…
TurnPark Art Space is an open-air sculpture museum in Massachusetts, about a 2.5-hour drive from New York City. It opened in 2017. Unlike Storm King, the sculpture park we recently wrote about, TurnPark stays open year-round, including winter. What’s especially interesting is that TurnPark was founded by immigrants from Moscow. It’s a private initiative by…
The Storm King Art Center in New York is more than 500 acres (just over 2 km²) of hills, meadows, and groves transformed into an open-air museum of contemporary art. Founded in the 1960s, it is now considered one of the largest and most influential sculpture parks in the United States. Here you can see…
On Thursday, November 20, 2025, in the very heart of New York’s gallery scene — Chelsea — the exhibition “Desires of the Boulders” opened, presented by a duo of two strikingly distinctive artists. About the artists Emil Silberman is a New York–based sculptor working in contemporary plastics, installation, and site-specific art. He is also the…
Remember I wrote about the incredible gallery Salon 94, the one that showed Urs Fischer’s furniture? It turns out Salon 94’s founder — Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn — was previously part of the young art consortium LGDR, founded in 2021. History Each letter in LGDR stood for a founder’s last name, and the idea behind the…
