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The Andy Warhol Museum announces the public presentation of 10 rarely seen Andy Warhol Screen Tests on Times Square's electronic billboards from 11:57 p.m. to midnight each night in May 2015. The screenings are part of the ongoing project Midnight Moment, a monthly presentation by The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. Among the Screen Tests shown are those of Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Lou Reed, Harry Smith, and Edie Sedgwick.

#SetintheStreet, an ongoing interactive installation project for which artist Justin Bettman builds cinematic sets out of unwanted materials and furniture before using them as backdrops for his own photographs, will come to Times Square from April 15-19. Visitors are invited to star in productions from their own imaginations and share them on Instagram with the global #SetintheStreet. The installation will be unveiled today, April 15 at 11:00am.

#SetintheStreet, an ongoing interactive installation project for which artist Justin Bettman builds cinematic sets out of unwanted materials and furniture before using them as backdrops for his own photographs, will come to Times Square from April 15-19. Visitors are invited to star in productions from their own imaginations and share them on Instagram with the global #SetintheStreet. The installation will be unveiled on Wednesday, April 15 at 11:00am.

Artist Peggy Ahwesh's City Thermogram, a portrait of the urban everyday through the lens of a heat-sensitive camera, will warm up Times Square's signage from 11:57 pm to midnight each night in April.

Artist Peggy Ahwesh's City Thermogram, a portrait of the urban everyday through the lens of a heat-sensitive camera, will warm up Times Square's signage from 11:57 pm to midnight each night in April.

Artist Marco Brambilla has created Apollo XVIII, an ambitious video installation that weaves archival footage from real NASA missions with computer-generated imagery to present a countdown of a fictional Apollo mission to the moon.

Artist Rafaël Rozendaal's gorgeous, color changing silhouette of two faces kissing each other, Much Better Than This, will be shown on Times Square's electronic billboards from 11:57 pm to midnight each night in February. This project is a part of Midnight Moment, a monthly presentation by The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts.

?Artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz has created A Pause in the City That Never Sleeps. The video consists of a continuous yawn on loop, which will be shown on Times Square's electronic billboards from 11:57 pm to midnight each night in January.

The cast of Aladdin on Broadway, the official sponsor of the Times Square New Year's Eve confetti wishes, just joined event organizers to throw handfuls of confetti from the New Amsterdam Theater marquee as part of the annual confetti test, yesterday in Times Square. Check out photos from the special event below!

Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, co-organizers of Times Square New Year's Eve, announced today that Disney's Aladdin, the new, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical comedy based on the Academy Award-winning animated film, will partner with the acclaimed New Year's Eve celebration to welcome 2015. As the official sponsor of the evening's annual confetti wishes tradition Aladdin stars, Adam Jacobs (Aladdin), James Monroe Iglehart (Genie), and Courtney Reed (Jasmine) will take part in the Ball Drop celebration, and events leading up to the big night.

Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda's film test pattern will be reimagined for the Times Square billboards this October. From 11:57pm to midnight each night, digital screens will be taken over by tightly synchronized, flickering black-and-white imagery mining data for mathematical beauty as part of Midnight Moment, a monthly presentation by The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts.

Earlier this summer, over 1,200 people lined up in Times Square to be filmed crawling across a green screen. Spanish artist Daniel Canogar captured the footage of their crawls and has edited it to be shown on the Square's spectacular billboards in September. The resulting film, titled Storming Times Square, will have its premiere on Times Square billboards September 1 and screened every night in September at 11:57 p.m. as part of the Midnight Moment, a monthly presentation of The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. This month's presentation is in partnership with bitforms gallery.

Chris Doyle will transform the concrete jungle of New York City's Times Square into a flourishing canyon landscape for three minutes every night in July as part of Midnight Moment. The artist's film, titled Bright Canyon, will premiere just beforemidnight on Tuesday, July 1st, and play every night throughout the month from 11:57 p.m. to midnight on Times Square's electronic billboards.Midnight Moment is a monthly presentation of The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. The July MidnightMoment is presented in partnership with Andrew Edlin Gallery.

For the sixth year, the Tony Awards® will be simulcast live in Times Square…and you're invited! Past Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler and singer Justin Guarini (Wicked) will host the outdoor celebration of Broadway, which is free and open to the public, right in the heart of New York City's Theatre District.

Clear Channel Spectacolor, a brand division of Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO), in partnership with the Times Square Alliance and the City of New York, announced today the sixth annual simulcast of the Tony Awards on June 8th in Times Square. Clear Channel Spectacolor is Co-Producer of the 2014 simulcast and an official media partner of the 68th Annual Tony Awards. The event will be co-hosted by past Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler and singer Justin Guarini.

Just in time for the month of the Summer Solstice, Yorgo Alexopoulos's site-specific June Midnight Moment will fill 42 large LED screens with abstracted celestial forms, creating a virtual solar system in Times Square. The artist's film, titled Transits, will premiere just before midnight on Sunday, June 1st, and play every night throughout the month from 11:57 p.m. to midnight. Midnight Moment is a monthly presentation of The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts.

Time Square Arts, in partnership with Allied Partners and Brickman Real Estate, will present Jim Findlay's Dream of the Red Chamber, a performance for a sleeping audience, produced by Collapsable Giraffe and 3-Legged Dog.

Animals of all kinds will fill Times Square's spectacular screens in May, turning the square into an urban jungle every night with Leslie Thornton's film Binocular Menagerie. Thornton's Midnight Moment film will premiere just before midnight tonight, May 1st, and play every night throughout May from 11:57 p.m.-midnight. Midnight Moment, celebrating its two year anniversary with this program, is a monthly presentation of The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. Thornton's film is presented in partnership with the Winkleman Gallery.

Animals of all kinds will fill Times Square's spectacular screens in May, turning the square into an urban jungle every night with Leslie Thornton's film Binocular Menagerie. Thornton's Midnight Moment film will premiere just before midnight on Thursday, May 1st, and play every night throughout May from 11:57 p.m.-midnight. Midnight Moment, celebrating its two year anniversary with this program, is a monthly presentation of The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. Thornton's film is presented in partnership with the Winkleman Gallery.

Time Square Arts, in partnership with Allied Partners and Brickman Real Estate, will present Jim Findlay's Dream of the Red Chamber, a performance for a sleeping audience, produced by Collapsable Giraffe and 3-Legged Dog.