FriendsWithYou’s interactive outdoor installation “Rainbow City” continues through July 5 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
30th St. & Tenth Ave.
Saturday & Sunday, 8:00 am – 11:00 pm, Monday & Tuesday, 11:00 am – 10:00 pm
Admission: free
www.aolartists.com/rainbowcity
rainbow city slideshow
In conjunction with the extension of the High Line, the Miami-based art collective FriendsWithYou, consisting of Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, has installed the fun installation “Rainbow City” at the corner of 30th St. & Tenth Ave. at the north end of the elevated railway that has been turned into a spectacular park. Situated next to the Lot on Tap, the new outdoor space under the High Line that serves Brooklyn Brewery seasonal beers and hosts such local food trucks as Eddie’s Pizza, CoolHaus, and Rickshaw Dumplings, “Rainbow City” is a temporary playland of forty colorful inflatables, ranging from ten to forty feet high, populating a sixteen-thousand-square-foot area. Numerous shapes, from mushrooms and circles to a snowman and a tall tower, are tied to the candy-striped ground, along with a pop-up store that is essentially a box that has popped open. Visitors can go inside some of the inflatables, while they can touch and push others as the balloons twist in the wind, but please do not turn them into punching bags. (If the wind gets too strong, the park will close.) FriendsWithYou also has an interactive, participatory show, featuring lots of smiley faces, at the Hole at 312 Bowery, continuing through August 6.