Be among of the first to colonize Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Mountains in Fritz Haeg’s geodesic domed tents. The innovative design includes the means for “temporary colonization, squatting, taking over and making yourself at home” wherever you please. Not sure if your colonizing skills are up to snuff? Try a dry run at the X Initiative, where the ground floor has been painted with a silhouette of the San Gabriel’s. Remember, this is a Dome Colony, as in community, with plenty of activities to prevent colonists from becoming restless. Each Dome has its own theme. There’s the Ecology Dome, Gastronomy Dome, Literary Dome, and the Drums & Skins Dome for optimum dome-hopping experience.

See more of Haeg’s work.

X is one of the most unique gallery spaces you’ll find in New York, a not for profit initiative that will exist for one year and show art in four phases. The next phase opens tonight with No Soul For Sale, a spectacular lineup of artists represented by “the most exciting, creative and respected not for profit centers, alternative institutions, artists’ collectives and independent enterprises from around the world,” most of which showcase art that isn’t otherwise accessible to New York.

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