A: Is for Art Abounds!

Art abounds this week in NYC. Here are some highlights to get you started.

Thinking of visiting the South Street Seaport? If you do an unusual installation by former Talking Head David Byrne called "Playing the Building" is there to entertain. Byrne has turned this Battery Maritime Building at 10 South St. into a musical instrument, connecting every key of an organ to beams and pipes in the building. Visitors can literally "play the building" by sitting down at the organ. The metal beams, pillars, the heating pipes and water pipes are all used to produce sound. The activation uses wind, vibration to resonate the inner harmonies, so few hear. You can play Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, noon-6 p.m for free.

Across the river in Long Island City, Queens, PS1 Gallery in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art in New York invites young emerging architects to propose a temporary structure for their Warm-up Music festival. This year Work Architecture Company has transformed a rock-strewn courtyard into a garden with vegetables sprouting from cardboard tubes.PF1 (Public Farm One) is an urban farm concept built with inexpensive and sustainable materials recyclable after its use at P.S.1. Cardboard tubes form a continuous surface creating multiple zones of activity including swings, fans, sound effects, innovative seating areas, and a refreshing pool at its center, as an Urban Beach. The installation opened June 20th, and will be hosting the 2008 Warm Up summer music series. The other finalists Matter Architecture Practice (New York), MONAD Architects - Eric Goldemberg + Veronica Zalcberg (Miami), su11 architecture + design (New York), and THEM/Lynch+Crembil (New York). An exhibition of the designs, organized by Andres Lepik, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, will be presented in MoMA’s Louise Reinhardt Smith Gallery from July 15 to October 20, 2008.

Beginning July 20, Museum of Modern Art plays tribute to the history of prefab homes with "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling." The past, present and future model's of the prefab home industry has set up shop on the Museum's vacant west lot. The fives homes erected on the vacant west lot are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia); Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier (New York); Horden Cherry Lee Architects / Haack + Höpfner Architects (London/Munich); Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning / Associate Professor Lawrence Sass (Cambridge); and Oskar Leo Kaufmann (Dornbirn, Austria).

Look out! It's a bird, it's a plane..... nope, just Chris Burden's "What My Dad Gave Me," a 65-foot-high structure built from an Erector Set. Even at 62, you can not stop this boy from playing with his toys and wowing those who partake in his joy and tribute to the area's Art Deco skyscrapers. Walk to Fifth Avenue at Rockefeller Center look up and you will be astounded until July 19th.

No matter where you go in NYC peoples imagination flourishes and that is a F.A.C.T.