A Moveable Feast

Thursday morning’s chill gave way to a balmy spring evening, as design-types flocked to Citygroup for the opening of The Great Outdoors, a taxonomy of New York’s dining sheds. Photographs of streeteries taken at oblique angles by Sebastijan Jemec and Simon Jolly during the first year of the pandemic were pinned in a continuous line along every wall, with some “book matched” to form a Dadaist version of Google Street View.

According to Jolly, the intimate basement gallery could only accommodate half of the total photos. Rather than consign the rest to Instagram, the duo bound the prints in an extendable book that doubles as a portable exhibit, right down to the introduction that acts as the wall text written by NYRA contributor AJ Artemel. The crowd spilled onto the raised sidewalk, and inspired by the photos, expropriated a parking space or two. Spotted: e-flux Architecture team Nick Axel and Christina Moushoul, plus Canal Street Research Association member .