Tag: governors island
Jim Reed, Governors Island’s director of park and public space, adopted a 5-year-old border collie named Max and molded his natural talent, sensei-like, into the Island’s first line of defense against geese that eat too much grass and poop all over the place. “Our turfs are getting decimated [by the geese],” Reed told DNAinfo. “They […]
Figment, the annual public art festival held on Governors Island, is seeking proposals from artists to design and build holes this year’s mini golf course. Artist-designed mini golf has become a kind of tradition for Figment over the past six years: each of the 18 holes is designed by a different artist at every festival, […]
Three Brooklyn-based artists want to put a 10-foot interactive music box on Governors Island for this year’s Figment art festival, but they need your help–to the tune of $3,500. Naturally, the’yre turning to Kickstarter. Geddes Levenson, Ashley Goeller, and Kelly Goeller envision a giant box with two spools and two handles–one for the melody, one […]
