{"id":1017028,"date":"2026-08-22T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1017028\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:37:15","slug":"a-giant-unicorn-cow-is-coming-to-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1017028\/","title":{"rendered":"A Giant Unicorn Cow Is Coming to Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"

Times Square<\/a> is already one of the more visually unhinged places on Earth, but next month, it\u2019s somehow getting even weirder: picture a unicorn cow riding a jet ski through purple skies while giant milk jugs float overhead and rainbow portals open across more than 100 billboards.<\/p>\n

For all of September, Times Square Arts\u2019 nightly Midnight Moment will feature El Mundo es Ni\u00f1a, a surreal new work by Miami-based artist duo LIZN\u2019BOW, a.k.a.\u00a0Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital. Every night from 11:57pm to midnight, the synchronized screens throughout Times Square will transform into Ni\u00f1alandia, the pair\u2019s fictional universe filled with fantastical characters, pop-culture references and some extremely strange modes of transportation.<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED:\u00a0You can play free pickleball right in the middle of Times Square for 5 straight days later this month<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The three-minute video is part fever dream, part futuristic fantasy. Among the sights drifting through its candy-colored world: islands of money, floating milk jugs, a unicorn cow on a jet ski and Ferrer\u2019s abuela cruising through the sky on a flying bicycle. LIZN\u2019BOW describes Ni\u00f1alandia as a \u201cpro-pocalyptic\u201d future, imagining how people might adapt and find joy and community amid climate change, rising waters and technological upheaval.<\/p>\n

And because apparently the unicorn cow taking over Times Square\u2019s screens wasn\u2019t enough, one will also be showing up IRL.\u00a0From September 20 through 27, Times Square will host a 27-foot-long inflatable unicorn cow riding a jet ski, alongside a monumental 34-foot-long inflatable rainbow. On September 23 at 10 pm, the spectacle gets even bigger with a live performance featuring LIZN\u2019BOW\u2019s feminist reggaeton band Ni\u00f1a and Puerto Rican art collective Poncili Creaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

LIZN\u2019BOW have been collaborating since an unlikely meeting at a Chicago party in 2015, where Bow was working as (naturally) a human lamp. Their work mixes performance, installation, music, fashion and technology, with Ni\u00f1alandia serving as an ever-expanding universe for much of it.<\/p>\n

El Mundo es Ni\u00f1a kicks off Times Square Arts\u2019 fall Midnight Moment season, which continues with animator Dustin Grella\u2019s nostalgic ode to New York, Sunday Morning, in October and French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet\u2019s exploration of Martinican carnival and mythology in November. Midnight Moment runs nightly across more than 100 electronic billboards between 41st and 49th Streets.<\/p>\n

But first: September belongs to the jet-skiing unicorn cow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Times Square is already one of the more visually unhinged places on Earth, but next month, it\u2019s somehow…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1017029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1037,29645,405,403,29646,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1017028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-art","tag-categories-art","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-art","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117139200340756638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}