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Governors Island Gets Its First Ever Ice Sculpture Competition, and You Can Enter

by Sarah Rose Sharp January 28, 2022January 28, 2022

As New York braces for a powerful storm, local artists can share their designs for ice sculptures to be constructed and displayed in the island’s new Winter Village.

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Birds Can Now Nest in a Living Sculpture in Brooklyn

by Allison Meier December 4, 2018December 5, 2018

Anina Gerchick’s “Birdlink” is a year-round sculpture of native plants that serves as a habitat for New York City’s local and migrating birds.

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14 Arts Organizations Protest Governors Island Rezoning [UPDATED]

by Jasmine Weber September 28, 2018October 2, 2018

Arts and cultural organizations have voiced their fears of changing socioeconomic standards on the island, and laid out a plan to maintain the public space in the face of gentrification.

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Dance with Digital Flamingos to Raise Awareness of Habitat Loss

by Allison Meier September 27, 2018October 2, 2018

Flarmingos is an ongoing augmented reality project, on Governors Island in New York, in which artist Kristin Lucas asks people to join digital flamingos in a dance of ecological awareness.

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Immigrant Stories Dock at Governors Island in Two Exhibitions

by Peter Malone July 2, 2018July 5, 2018

Artists in both exhibitions were inspired by the harbor itself and how it has been a witness to immigrant narratives.

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Art Amid Governors Island’s Architectural Decay

by Allison Meier September 25, 2017September 25, 2017

In its 10th edition, the Governors Island Art Fair in New York expands its installations into 1920s barracks.

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Exploring Blackness in Enigmatic, Black-and-White Fragments

by Seph Rodney September 13, 2017

Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s exhibition on Governors Island is overwhelming in its maximalism as it attempts to address the enormous issue of blackness.

Cynthia Karasek's "Heaven and Earth" (2015-16) from AIR Gallery's programs on Governors Island in 2016 (courtesy AIR Gallery)
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Visit Open Studios in a Former Officer’s House on Governors Island

by Benjamin Sutton July 26, 2017July 25, 2017

The nine artists participating in AIR Gallery’s inaugural residency program on Governors Island will welcome visitors into their studios on July 29 and 30.

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Artists Consider Race in Response to the American Revolution

by Seph Rodney September 15, 2016September 16, 2016

The curatorial scheme of the Race and Revolution exhibition at Nolan Park on Governors Island is bold and seditious.

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The Prescient Work of an Artist Killed on 9/11

by Ellen Pearlman September 7, 2016September 7, 2016

The Michael Richards exhibition on Governors Island, curated by Alex Fialho and Melissa Levin, proves what an astonishing loss it was when the artist was killed on 9/11.

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Harboring Art in Historic Spaces at the 2016 Governors Island Art Fair

by Allison Meier September 1, 2016September 3, 2016

The circular sandstone fort of Castle Williams has had numerous identities since it was completed on Governors Island in 1811, from New York City harbor defense to Civil War barracks to military prison.

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Rachel Whiteread’s Concrete Cabin Awaits Discovery in the Governors Island Hills

by Allison Meier July 18, 2016July 21, 2016

British artist Rachel Whiteread and curator Tom Eccles discussed both the Unabomber and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden in considering the form and isolation of the American cabin.

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