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Presenting visual & performance art in unexpected public places. 𝘈𝘪𝘖𝘗 2026: 𝘜𝘛𝘖𝘗𝘐𝘈𝘚 coming Sep 26 & 27 to NY

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Thank you, Hyperallergic! 💫
¡Gracias, Hyperallergic!

“Art in Odd Places Seek Utopia Under Dark Clouds” by Rhea Nayyar @rhea.nayyar captured the essence of AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS perfectly: our endeavor imagining the city not as it is, but as it could be, even when the sky is gray.

“Art in Odd Places Seek Utopia Under Dark Clouds” de Rhea Nayyar captura la esencia de AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS: imaginar la ciudad no como es, sino como podría ser, incluso bajo un cielo gris.

Thank you, Rhea, for spending time with us on 14th Street and telling our story.
Gracias, Rhea, por acompañarnos en la calle 14 y contar nuestra historia con tanto cuidado.

Thank you to our curators, Arantxa Araujo and Pancho López, for shaping such a generous and visionary edition. 🌆
Gracias a nuestros curadores, Arantxa Araujo y Pancho López, por dar forma a una edición tan generosa y visionaria.

And thank you to every artist who turned the sidewalk into a living laboratory for collective dreams, radical care, and shared futures. And for showing up, rain or shine.
Y gracias a cada artista que convirtió la acera en un laboratorio viviente de sueños colectivos, cuidado radical y futuros compartidos. Aquí estuvieron, llueva o truene.

📖 Read the full article at the link in our bio.
Lee el artículo completo en el enlace de nuestro perfil.

@hyperallergic
#ArtInOddPlaces #AiOP2026 #UTOPIAS #14thStreet #PublicArt PerformanceArt NYCArt ArtePúblico Hyperallergic taken in 14th Street Manhattan by @artinoddplaces

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Big news: we now have MERCH!

We launched this shop to help raise funds for AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS, and your purchase directly supports the festival's artists, with 100% of proceeds going toward artist fees for AiOP's 21st annual festival.

Artist-run initiatives thrive through collective care, shared investment, and the belief that culture is something we create together. When you purchase from this shop, you're not just taking home something meaningful. You're helping sustain the artists whose ideas, questions, and creativity bring UTOPIAS to life.

Thank you for supporting Art in Odd Places. Every purchase is an investment in artists, public space, and the collective imagination that helps shape a more hopeful future. Visit the store at the link in our bio👚
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Lanzamos esta tienda para recaudar fondos para AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS, un festival de arte público dedicado a imaginar posibilidades audaces y explorar mejores formas de convivir. Cada compra apoya directamente a los artistas del festival, y el 100% de las ganancias se destina a cubrir los honorarios de los artistas en la 21.ª edición de AiOP.

Las iniciativas artísticas prosperan gracias al cuidado colectivo, la inversión compartida y la convicción de que la cultura se construye entre todos. Al comprar en esta tienda, no solo te llevas a casa algo significativo, sino que también contribuyes a apoyar a los artistas cuyas ideas, preguntas y creatividad dan vida a UTOPIAS.

Gracias por apoyar a Art in Odd Places. Cada compra es una inversión en artistas, espacios públicos y la imaginación colectiva que ayuda a construir un futuro más esperanzador. Visita la tienda en el enlace de nuestro bio 👚 by @artinoddplaces

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A MOST EXTRAORDINARY ARRIVAL IS IMMINENT

Let the bells ring. Let the heavens part. Let the city prepare itself.

Visionary outsider folk artist, international influencer, and provocateur of uncertain jurisdiction, CA$H COW, announces the forthcoming public action PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, a spectacular New York City intervention of uncertain consequence and potentially historic significance.

On Saturday, November 7, this most unconventional dignitary of the contemporary world shall make an appearance on the streets of Manhattan. The occasion calls for volunteer videographers and photographers to document the proceedings for posterity, or at the very least, for the internet.

THE GRAND ITINERARY

12 PM to 1 PM | 23rd Street
Beginning at First Avenue and proceeding west to Tenth Avenue.

1 PM to 2 PM | 14th Street
Beginning at Eleventh Avenue and proceeding east to Avenue A.

Members of the press, documentarians, image-makers, loyal subjects, curious bystanders, and all persons of sound or questionable judgment are cordially invited to attend.

Those wishing to secure a place in this momentous affair may DM here, send correspondence to artinoddplaces@gmail.com, or simply present themselves on the day, when history, spectacle, and the possibility of loose change shall converge upon the streets of New York.

No velvet rope. No papal bull. No guarantee of miracles.

CA$H COW IS COMING.
Govern yourselves accordingly.

#CashCow #PenniesFromHeaven #ArtInOddPlaces #NYC #PublicArt taken in New York City by @artinoddplaces

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Art in Odd Places, September 27, 2026. Where I learned (again) that the Emergency Index is a place. And a feeling still drifting from the lonely apartments where we watch the storm from a window. And a memory of a silent walk to work with sweat running down our backs. And the idea that the weather is not itself hostile but some larger reminder that adaptation is difficult and a privilege. To stand in front of the box fan, to feel the heat from the subway grate. Like the place where the air and the overheated sea meet and create something that moves and howls. Without the Refuge but under the shelter of what my friend called fancy scaffolding there was listening and exchange. I’m still not sure if it’s possible to collectively hold or release somatic residues of climate trauma that I carry in my right shoulder, shivering in my umbrella dress. In the company of friends and strangers. Sharing some of the stories I’ve been gifted through the witness prints. What are the landscapes where we can imagine a displaced emergency covering parts of the skyline? Like the low clouds and some mix of grief and gratitude. And this passage into the season of storms where we gathered. by @artinoddplaces

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It rained. It was windy. We showed up anyway. 🌧️🌆

Thank you to the artists who filled 14th Street with imagination and generosity, the volunteers who gave their day to this, the photographers who caught it all, and everyone who came out and brought the utopia with them.

Nothing stopped us. We were there. Together. That matters. 🖤

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Llovió. Hizo viento. Aun así, estuvimos ahí. 🌧️🌆

Gracias a los artistxs que llenaron la Calle 14 de imaginación y generosidad, a los voluntarios que dieron su día por esto, a los fotógrafos que lo capturaron todo, y a todos los que vinieron y trajeron la utopía consigo.

Ustedes trajeron la utopía consigo. Nada nos detuvo. Estuvimos ahí. Juntxs. Y eso importa. 🖤

#ArtInOddPlaces #AiOP2026 #Utopias #PublicArt #NYCArt 14thStreet by @artinoddplaces

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Thank you @artinoddplaces @arantxaaraujo @pancholopez for inviting me to present Germinating Futures this past weekend during AiOP 2026 UTOPIAS. It was an important moment for me to bring this project to life thanks to the organizers of this performance art festival in its 21st year! I had beautiful exchanges with people willing to listen and engage in conversation, receive free seeds, propagated plants, seed dispersals, and learn how to fold a seed envelope.

#ArtInOddPlaces #AiOP2026 #PublicArt

@gwynethleech
@juliana.q.m
@blankaamezkua

Thanks to Carlos and Rejin for documenting! There's the cutest dog I've ever seen in the last photo😍

images 1-9 @carlosrigau
images 10-13 @rejinl by @artinoddplaces

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Many thanks to Emilio Rojas for including me in Tezcatl: Obsidian Meditations, a collective durational performance presented as part of Art in Odd places: UTOPIAS in NYC on Saturday, September 27. The AiOP call to artists: “Drawing from Mexica conceptions of temporality- where the unseen future is behind us and the visible past is in front- participants will use obsidian mirrors to explore walking backwards, reflection, movement, and collective gestures.”

This experience was exhilarating. Walking backward while scrying through obsidian — navigating the bustling urban setting and movement interspersed with quiet moments of contact improvisation — reveled visceral optical illusions, juxtapositions and mirages. The horizon seemed magnified yet ten miles away. Time and the physical world seemed to unspool as imagination intensified. Experiencing this temporal phemonon with a sympathetic collective [during the brief lull of a nor’easter] was numinious, humbling and infinately inspiring.

@performanceroarte
https://emiliorojas.studio/

Many thanks also to @artinoddplaces
@ed.woodham (Image)
@arantxaaraujo @pancholopez
@zoopsia
@jiarasha
@emmyliketheawards by @artinoddplaces

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This past weekend, I had the opportunity to take part in Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS, a festival that brought together visual and performance artists to imagine the city not as it is, but as it could be. Over two days, and despite the severe weather, the projects transformed 14th Street in Manhattan and invited us to consider other possible ways of inhabiting the present.

There, I presented yo, Guirre, a performance that brings two ancestral practices from the Canary Islands, my homeland, to the streets of New York: Silbo Gomero and Salto del Pastor. The action offers an alternative vision of the future rooted in ancestral practices that have survived colonization, reclaiming them as other ways of moving, communicating, and relating to the territory.

Este fin de semana tuve la oportunidad de participar en Art in Odd Places 2026: UTOPIAS, un festival que reunió a artistas visuales y de performance para imaginar la ciudad no tal como es, sino como podría ser. Durante dos días, y a pesar del fuerte temporal, las propuestas transformaron la calle 14 de Manhattan e invitaron a pensar otras formas posibles de habitar el presente.

Allí presenté yo, Guirre, una performance que lleva a las calles de Nueva York dos prácticas ancestrales de las Islas Canarias, mi tierra: el Silbo Gomero y el Salto del Pastor. La acción ofrece una visión alternativa del futuro arraigada en prácticas ancestrales que han sobrevivido a la colonización, recuperándolas como otras formas de desplazarse, comunicarse y relacionarse con el territorio.

Thank you to
@artinoddplaces artinoddplaces, @arantxaaraujo and @pancholopez for including yo, Guirre!

Photo @pacoamate_
Vídeo @edgargisbert
Costume design & styling @bernatbuscato taken in 14 Street, NYC by @artinoddplaces

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Flood (A Path Through), 2026

I began this work by observing traces of water moving across the pavement of West 14th Street—small paths left behind as water navigated the architecture of the sidewalk.

I responded by allowing the hand-pulled linen to create a path of its own, spreading across the pavement and forcing pedestrians to alter their movements around and through it.

And then it rained.

Water returned to the site.

The linen absorbed it. The pavement changed. People changed their routes. A work conceived from the traces of water became an encounter with water itself.

Presented within UTOPIAS, Flood (A Path Through) considers the city as something that is never entirely fixed—a space continually reorganized by weather, bodies, materials, and forces we often overlook.

For a few hours on West 14th Street, the sidewalk became something else.

Flood (A Path Through)
Art in Odd Places: UTOPIAS @artinoddplaces
West 14th Street, New York
2026 by @artinoddplaces

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AiOP: UTOPIAS Day 2 part one of many with so much love and gratitude for @arantxaaraujo @katya.at.the.studio @pancholopez @ed.woodham and all the artists and angels of Art in Odd Places making rain into rainbows 🙏🌈✨

#aioputopias #aiop2026 by @artinoddplaces

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Day 2- AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS in all its glory, resilience, powers, strength, and unity. Team of dreams🙏‼️🌹21 years and counting❣️

Thanks to the gracious hospitality of Louis at @nybeerdispensary

#aiop2026 #aioputopias taken in New York City by @artinoddplaces

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19 days ago

Sarah Rudledge Extends Blessing to AiOP/This is meant to expand the scope of Nicolás' blessing on 14th Street in Manhattan last night.

September 25-26, 2026
From Sara Rudledge
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Art in All Places/A Blessing / Art in Odd Places / AiOP 2026: Utopias

At 1:43 pm AEST we light 3 candles and arrange the altar. I finish a piece of toast thick with cumquat jam. Fritz is in position, snoring under my studio table.

At 1:55 pm we begin to transition - a walk of sorts in the mind to arrive at your blessing - and we sit in peace.

Eyes closed, we hold some small darkness and think of you all gathering together in the night, at once part of and far from this loose weave of company.

At 2:02 pm an intense feeling arises - hope? sadness? love?

At 2:09 pm something akin to vertigo.

At 2:25pm the corellas squark outside my window calling us back to ‘here’.

Photograph: Sarah Rudledge

#artinoddplaces #sararudlege #blessing #melbourne #nicolasdumitestevezraful taken in Blessing by @artinoddplaces

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