On the eve of his departure from New York, the outgoing manager of public art for the Times Square Alliance discusses community engagement, urban placemaking and contemporary art practice at the iconic site.

Drinks with performance artists tend to keep you on your toes. You’re always wondering if something they say, the way...

As the plaintive wail of an ambulance drifted up 2nd Avenue last Friday night, a group of about 30 people at...

I stopped by the Camp for Oppositional Architecture Friday night.  It was a “bar+” night; lectures are held in the...

Approximately one million people trample through Times Square everyday - some incessantly pausing to snap pictures of all the chaos while others beeline without ever looking up. On November 11 at 2pm on the corner of 46th and Broadway, Tony Conrad, clad in a neon green T-shirt, used a power drill to open a wooden box half his size that featured a wooden lever, a doorbell, and a sound hole.