Tribeca Citizen | Seen & Heard: Rats!

RATS ON WHEELS
J. sent this gruesome photo of a rat’s nest established under the hood of his car in less than a week. He says Jay Street is completely overrun with critters. I know I can’t navigate the corner of Duane and Greenwich at night without a mild panic — I walk down the center of the street and step lively. Maybe it’s time for a check-in with the DOH to see what’s the latest rodent count…

SLOW ART AT THE BRANDY LIBRARY
A Scottish whisky maker, Glengoyne, has installed a piece of art at the Brandy Library that will reveal itself over the next 50 years — as does its whisky. The piece was created using a printing technique with ink that will develop based on its exposure to ultraviolet light, revealing the words of a new poem by NYC-based poet Alison Malee about the concept of time.

TENNIS AT BROOKFIELD
Tennis players John Isner, Shelby Rogers and Lauren Davis will play in the annual celebrity match and community event at Brookfield’s court set up in the North Cove on Saturday, August 28, from 11a to 5p. There are clinics from 11a to 1p and the match will go on at 4p. There will also be demonstrations, games and prizes for the public.

PAUL THEK AT ALEXANDER AND BONIN
Alexander and Bonin will host a show of major works from Paul Thek, opening Sept. 7 through Oct. 16. The exhibition includes major works from all periods of the artist’s career, beginning with Untitled (Meat Piece with Chair), 1966, from the iconic series Technological Reliquaries. The exhibition also includes “picture light” paintings and newspaper paintings from the 1980s. “The dissonance of the two surfaces, glass and wax, pleases me: one is clear and shiny and hard, the other is soft and slimy,” he said of his work. “I try to harmonize them without relating them, or the other way around. At first, the physical vulnerability of the wax necessitated the cases; now the cases have grown to need the wax. The cases are calm; their precision is like numbers, reasonable.”