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The Madison Square Park Conservancy will host Spring Kids Fest again this year in Madison Square Park on May 18th from 10:30am-1:30pm. Its a FREE event featuring live music, story time, Karma Kids Yoga, arts and crafts, face painting, and more for kids and their parents. Confirmed music this year includes Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Rolie Polie Guacamole, and Songs for Seeds.

Plus we hear Pixar will be there promoting their new movie Monster’s University.

We will post the schedule (rain or shine!) when we get it closer to the date. Until then here is featured ‘kid-hop’ music by Secret Agent 23 Skidoo

Just in time for the warmer weather, the flowers are blooming all over Madison Square Park (thanks to the timely work of the Madison Square Park Conservancy). With temperatures up on the 70′s today, I suspect it would be a great place to eat lunch.

The Blizzard of 2013 in Madison Square Park has left some stunning snow covered trees.

Here is some footage of a blizzard near Madison Square Park in 1902. You can see them pan across thee park about midway through.

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The Madison Square Park Conservancy just announced the next Mad Sq Art installation for the park. Starting up March 1st, TOPSY-TURVY: A CAMERA OBSCURA INSTALLATION, will open in Madison Square Park by New York artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder.

As you might imagine, the installation will utilize the ancient concepts of camera obscura, to reflect upside-down images from the surrounding park in a walk-in chamber with a pinhole-type opening. For more on the history of the camera obscura, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura.

“Topsy-Turvy is our homage to one of the earliest moving image technologies in the pre-history of cinema. The projected image inside our circular Camera Obscura delivers a topsy-turvy panoramic abstraction of Madison Square Park and the surrounding scenery around the Flatiron District.” – artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder

The installation is part of the Madison Square Conservancy’s groundbreaking Madison Square Art public art program. Each season you will find thought-provoking sculptures, structures, video and audio art throughout the park by the most prominent artists in the world including Antony Gormley, Jim Campbell, Richard Deacon, Tadashi Kawamata, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, William Wegman, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Jaume Plensa, and Sol LeWitt.