We could not be any more excited about LUMEN, the upcoming arts festival that is turning an industrial waterfront in Staten Island into an artist playground built on mounds of salt.

We were already thankful for the unusually warm winter this year, but this is surely the cherry on top. Atlantic Salt, which provides road salt to East Coast cities, was left this year with overflowing salt reserves due to the lack of snow. So what is happening to the 150,000 tons of unused salt? Bring in 50 artists to sculpt salt mountains into sculptures, screens and a giant salt mound, of course!Read more