May 26, 2011

Governors Island Reopens for the Season

May 27 - Bike and Roll’s Free Bike Fridays allows anyone to borrow a bike for free for up to an hour (Fridays through Sept. 23.) Bike and Roll also rents bikes on the island on Fridays, weekends and holidays. Visitors may also bring their own bikes via ferry.

Building 110 opens with art installations and open studios curated by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The group show “No One is an Island” will remain on view through July 4.

Trapeze School New York teaches trapeze lessons and Big Apple Circus leads circus skills workshops on the Parade Ground through Sept. 25.

Figment’s Sculpture Gardenminiature golf courseand Burble Bup Pavilion open for the full season.

Three-part “Designs for Living 1795 – 2011” exhibition opens with historic couture fashion from Worth, Balenciaga and Dior as well as 18th and 19th century wallpapers and contemporary tonalist landscape paintings.
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