P.S. 1, in Long Island City, Queens, has been hosting its weekly summer dance-party series, Warm Up Saturdays, for 10 years. This year, instead of the usual urban beach-themed décor, the courtyard has been transformed into an urban farm: 260 cardboard cylinders, from waist-height to towering, that sprout 51 plant varieties, like Swiss chard, dill, strawberries and tomatoes. NYT | prev.
Reactions to the art ranged from enthusiastic to indifferent.

“That’s not why I come here,” said John Monias, a 29-year-old wearing Gucci sunglasses and a T-shirt with “Who needs sleep?” printed on the back. He came for the party. “In other places in New York, people are all about appearances. Here, there’s no standard for what to wear, no picking and choosing who comes in. Everyone’s being themselves.”

Michael Kaplan, 31, a musician and computer programmer, came for the naughty feeling of looking at art in a converted public school after dark. “I keep expecting to get chased out of here,” he said with a laugh. He was intrigued by the farm.

“It’s a kind of oasis,” he said, looking down from the second floor of the museum and out over the courtyard and neighborhood. “It’s surrounded by broken-down buildings and in the center there’s this green exhibit and all these young people.”