The street signs and cinder blocks of city life can all-too-easily cast a grey cloud over a community and its dwellers. This week's art round up, however, is dedicated to discovering the unusual within the urban, and the magical within the mundane. From XAM's pop-up bird houses, to Paul McCarthy's riverside "Balloon Dog," to Orly Genger's colorful rope piece winding its way through Madison Square Park, all of these projects remind us to take a second to look around our city and realize that it is anything but artless.

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Jeff Koons• New Museum• Madison Square Park• The New Yorker• The Whitney Museum• Paul McCarthy• i-• trees• Dan Colen• Xam• nyc art exhibitions• Frieze Art Fair NYC• NYC Art Round Up• NYC art galleries• IDEAS CITY Festival• nyc art exhibitions 2013• Passport to the Arts• The New Yorker’s Passport to the Arts Event• I YOU WE• YOU• WE at the Whitney• Paul McCarthy Presented by Hauser & Wirth• Hauser and Wirth• XAM For The Urban Habitat Project• Urban Habitat• Birdhouses around NYC• The spirits that I called• Hugo Fontela• Orly Genger Red Yellow and Blue• Public art in NYC• Public art projects NYC 2013• Cutlog Contemporary Art Fair• nyc art gallery tours