A sibling of the 826 Valencia learning lab and pirate-goods store in San Francisco started by Dave Eggers, 826NYC borrows the formula that made its California counterpart so successful: a volunteer-driven tutoring program housed in a distinctly unexpected setting.
But just a few steps below ground is a very different, and unexpected, setting — a trove of art installations that has transformed the city's subway system into an eclectic and far-flung museum, featuring some of the best known contemporary artists in the world.
We suggest turning the site into a pasture, an image that will overwhelm and impress because it is such a common scene in such an unexpected setting.
It's a very strong political play with an unexpected setting: a back garden somewhere in the south of England where four women are ostensibly having a nice chat but are actually terrified for various reasons, about existence and the future.
4 p.m. 7. Ama Art Down a bumpy dirt road in the countryside, the rural hamlet of Castello di Ama (current population: 4) is an unexpected setting for museum-worthy contemporary art.
It may remind some readers of the nuanced fiction of Barbara Pym or the nearly forgotten British novelist of manners Elizabeth Taylor — or even, for that matter, Philip Larkin, deprivation's laureate, whose "Old Fools" is given an unexpected setting in the unexpectedly delightful "Curious Earth".
