That’s right folks, its that time of the month again. First Friday. As you may or may not be aware, the first Friday of every month transforms into Art After Dark at the Guggenheim. It’s basically a rawkus party. The museum stays open into the wee hours, full of bars and drinking and art and DJ’s bumping tunes that float up the winding ramp and fill the entire place with sound. If you’ve never experienced Art After Dark at the Guggenheim, go. However, we recommend getting there especially early tonight, because a star DJ-duo is in town, and long lines may be in order. World-class CHROMEO will be spinning tonight at the Guggenheim. So get your high-society museum-mile suite on, and match it with some dancing shoes.

Photo by  Ian Meyers used under a Creative Commons License.

Continuing the curated series of posts of beautiful shots of the urban mysteries that are London and New York:

Trafalgar Square - Nelson’s Column:

An aerial view of Manhattan, New York:

Image credits: Nico Balestra and garyfenstamaker via Flickr, courtesy a Creative Commons license.

Photo Series 1 and 2.

Absolutely gorgeous video that chronicles 25 hours in wonderful, romantic, colourful Manhattan – one look at a video like this and I really feel like going back to New York. Here’s a quick description of the video in the words of Charles Frisby, the Vimeo user who created the video:

25 Hours in Manhattan was shot in chronological order. I opened with a time lapse shot of sunrise at 6:30am on Saturday and ended with a time lapse shot from Columbus Circle, ending the shoot at 7:30pm.

25 Hours in Manhattan (Canon 7D) from Charles Frisby on Vimeo.

In response to Anya’s latest blog on an “intriguing and unusual exhibition to visit” in London, New York has some “art in odd places” to visit this weekend too. Exploring the “odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life,” the annual Art in Odd Places festival aims to expand, question and provoke the way we communicate in public space. Simply put, it forces us to question the role art plays in public.

The festival is a must. It is free. Most exciting is how it transforms the Lower East Side and Alphabet city for the weekend, turning store shop windows into curious displays, public gardens into theatrical stagings, and forcing walker-bys to closely examine everything – from cracks in the sidewalks to building cornices. The Art in Odd Places festival, if nothing else, forces us to take nothing in this city for granted, forcing us to peel our eyes a bit more than usual by highlighting the unusual.

Photos Courtesy of DannyBirchall and Hragv with Creative Commons License

We’ve been playing about with some visualisation tools and the tons of data the site’s been collecting since we launched. There are some very exciting things that we can do with this stuff. This is just a preview.