Friday’s New York Times City Room blog had a post about Governors Island’s potential to host classical music festivals, much like Tanglewood or other famed venues around the country. With its outstanding views of the Statue of Liberty, Lower Manhattan, and New York Harbor, along with its large, open green spaces, Governors Island is a unique place [...]
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Today’s issue of the New York Times featured a front-page story about the 12 hour production of The Demons, which will be performed on Governors Island this July. The performance is a part of the Lincoln Center Festival and is the first of its kind to take place on the Island. Patrick Healy of the Times [...]
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The Lincoln Center Festival announced its line-up of performances today and it includes two major theatre events on Governors Island – the North American premiere of Peter Stein’s 12 hour marathon production of Dostoyevsky’s The Demons (also known as The Possessed) and the North American premiere of Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s production of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema, [...]
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In this week’s New York magazine, Justin Davidson looks at five architecture teams’ proposals for soft-edge interventions that could combat the effects of rising sea levels in NYC’s future. The concepts will be displayed in the Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1’s “Rising Currents” exhibition, which opens on March 24. One of the sites that the teams [...]
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Castle Williams is a part of the Governors Island National Monument and is one of the most unique structures on Governors Island. The Castle is a circular fort made of red sandstone and it was built between 1807 and 1811 under the direction of Colonel Jonathan Williams, then the Chief Engineer of the US Army Corps [...]
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FIGMENT is again coming back to Governors Island this summer. From June 11-13, the Island will be transformed by visual and performing artists, sculpture, music, theatre and much more. If you are an artist and would like to submit a project for this year’s FIGMENT, you can learn more about participating here. All submissions are due [...]
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This spring, the Sundance Institute will take its theatre labs to two new sites on the east coast — Governors Island and MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art).
From June 1 – 12, actors, directors and playwrights will come to Governors Island each day to work together on never before produced scripts. Sundance received 650 applications [...]
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Many of Governors Island’s visitors are used to seeing the Island blanketed with art installations, full of bike riders and people picnicking, playing sports, or enjoying a free performance. Since the Island is open from June – mid-October, very few New Yorkers have actually seen the Island when it is covered in snow and the trees are bare.
After Wednesday’s snowstorm [...]
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With Valentine’s Day coming up this weekend, we have been thinking about romance out here on Governors Island. Earlier in the week, the New York Times compiled a list of some of the New York City’s most romantic spots, and of course, many are located along the water, with beautiful harbor views and vistas of the [...]
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NPR reported last week that a Burger King in Miami was going to sell beer with its burgers and fries, beginning in mid-February. Many believe that this is the first Burger King in the country to serve beer, but in fact, the Governors Island Burger King sold beer here during the Coast Guard era on the [...]
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