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"Hope Wanted: New York City Under Quarantine" will be installed in the museum’s rear courtyard, located at West 76th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, and as the title indicates, it takes a look back at NYC's (very) recent, traumatic past—which, as William Faulkner might have put it, isn't even past.

At the height of the quarantine, they spent two days traveling the five boroughs to interview and take photos of ordinary New Yorkers living during an extraordinary moment. Serra Fiorita by Birreria will be decked out in florals with a gin cart and even a special, biweekly flower dinner. Usually, all of the flags at Rockefeller Center are the same—like American flags on the Fourth of July, rainbow flags during Pride and silver-and-gold flags during the holiday season—but now, each one is different.For its new "Flag Project," Tishman Speyer tagged Jeff Koons, Marina Abramović, Christian Siriano, KAWS and a handful of big artists and New Yorkers to design 193 flags for Rockefeller Center.

Walk the High Line and drop into the Meatpacking District for galleries and good eats. We already have this email.

The flags will be up through August 16.The breezy works of art, which are free to view, were each designed to showcase and celebrate NYC's diversity, vibrant energy, strength and resiliency.While New Yorkers can’t see art in museums and galleries at the moment, they can head to Roosevelt Island to see—and swim alongside—a pool that’s a literal work of art.Every year on Roosevelt Island, the pool deck at the Manhattan Park waterfront complex, gets a colorful makeover by an artist, per a tradition that began in 2015 by Acclaimed designer Alex Proba was the behind this year’s colorful mural masterpiece.To check out the installation this year, and cool off, the Manhattan Park Pool Club allows non-residents to purchase memberships or day passes to the pool (weekdayThe NYHS will be reopening on August 14 with an exhibition mounted outdoors. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon!Thanks for subscribing!

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The Uplands cover a three-acre site that includes a 6,300-square-foot lawn and a water play area made from materials salvaged from one of the former piers that lined the East River when it was still a working waterfront.

Thirteen) is now offering the next best thing: a free full recording of last year's excellent Shakespeare in the Park production of the Bard's tart-tongued rom-com Photograph: Tom Powel Imaging/Courtesy Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/Artestar New York/The Brant FoundationOn August 24, artists Gillie and Marc Schattner will be unveiling a massive gorilla sculpture in Hudson Yards’ Bella Abzug Park.

Daily, there are awesome events to stream and new attractions to see, but if you’re searching for something really specific like new happenings at the city’s top destinations or something low-budget—like Remarkably, the outdoor art showcase in Long Island City has been opened all of this time, because, well, it's a park. Today:See the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Balloon InflationThis pre–Turkey Day ritual, held near the American Museum of Natural History, Go to the content Go to the footer. Photograph: Courtesy Jeffrey Gibson; Scott Lynch; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Kavi Gupta, Chicago; Roberts Projects, Los Angeles It will be covered in a skein of brightly-colored geometric patterns.

Now, it's is making up for lost time with a new exhibition series, under the rubric, "Monuments Now," that will take place over the summer and fall. Ramírez Jonas, meanwhile, is creating a functional community grill in the form of towering obelisk.