Eleven Madison Park’s Discreet New Monumental Art Piece

Artist Daniel Turner's 16-foot-long site-specific "step" sculpture

Before anyone can approach the stunning Rita Ackermann chalkboard painting, or steal away to the Sol LeWitt in an upstairs dining room, guests to Eleven Madison Park quite literally step on an exceptional monument. Some 1,000 pounds and 16 feet long, artist Daniel Turner‘s site-specific sculpture is a quiet homage to the restaurant and chef Daniel Humm’s success. It greets people upon entry at the …

A Tiny Tavern for Three: Brooklyn’s Threesome Tollbooth

Roughly the size of a tollbooth, Brooklyn’s aptly-named Threesome Tollbooth tavern has enough space for a bartender and two guests. It also happens to be tucked into the supply closet of a former Italian restaurant. The whole unmarked operation is legal and the latest project from artist N.D. Austin and his partner Jesse Sheidlower. The drinks within are born of “esoteric liquors and liqueurs” including …

Forlane 6 Studio’s Subaquatic Eco-Fiction

An exhibition, "This Side of Paradise," hosted under the sea and captured in photographs

With “This Side of Paradise,” layer upon layer of creative exploration united for an underwater experience that lives on through photography. French-born artists Hortense Le Calvez and Mathieu Goussin (known as Forlane 6 Studio) built temporary wooden structures—arrows, trees and more—which they carefully placed into the Aegean Sea near their home in Hydra Island, Greece. This itself was a temporary exhibition known as “Disoriented,” and …