On the first Thursday of every month at the Pearl Street Triangle in DUMBO, the Manhattan Bridge is used as a backdrop for a video installation as part of the art project titled “LIGHT YEAR.” Originally created for the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage to celebrate the United Nations’ declaration of 2015 as the Year of Light and Light Art, “LIGHT YEAR” has since become an international project, with presentations in DUMBO, Berlin, and live streamed online. Over the years, “LIGHT YEAR” has featured the work of hundreds of artists and curators from around the world. This week’s video installation by artists Philip Vanderhyden, Colleen Keough, Rebecca Shapass, and Eric Souther was “Thresholds and Beyond,” which explored the “place where disparate realities meet, overlap and create hybrid realities.”

The Flatiron Building is exhibiting a fascinating new video installation by artist Diana Lehr. Curated by the Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, the video installation sits in the prow of the building on the north side and features a dreamlike leaf floating on a surface of water. The videos have the feel of a graphic novel, as the description notes, and it was lovely to get lost in the beautiful colors and movement for a few minutes one morning on our commute this week. Lehr is known for bringing into “view micro-realities and things that often go unnoticed” and in incorporating “illusion and the defining line between what is real and what is not[.]” Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections and has been exhibited in New Orleans, San Diego, Philadelphia, Seattle, NYC, Los Angeles, and Honolulu. It’s the perfect antidote for this cold weather!