The fun lasted all of a few days. City officials in New York are doing their curmudgeonly, no-fun-allowing, grandpa-like enforcer thing and have cracked down on Carsten Höller's 'Experience" exhibit at the New Museum. Due to Health Code violations, visitors will no longer be able to float around in a giant pool naked, en mass. Instead, they'll have to go it alone.

Carsten Höller's career retrospective "Experience" opens tomorrow at the New Museum, and the exhibit is literally a playground for fans of contemporary art. It's the first New York exhibition for the German artist, who "has employed psychotropic drugs, flashing lights, and architectural alterations to overwhelm viewers with visual stimuli and challenge accepted self-perceptions" (sure!).

Saturday was Altered Zones at the New Museum, an event hosted by Pitchfork wherein a bunch of bands, DJs, and visual artists performed on all floors of the museum. The musical line-up was meandering and diverse; I wanted to see Eric Copeland and Trash Talk. But the sold-out event felt oddly low budget for the steep price of $25 per ticket, and overall poorly orchestrated. The power went out more than once and there weren't nearly enough seats on the main floor. The ticketed "open" bar was beer only and required braving a series of long, shapeless lines.

Not to be outdone by the Whitney annex downtown, the Lower East Side's New Museum is planning an expansion of its own, already having secured property next door to its existing space. Museum executives have disclosed an approximate price tag of $16 million for the new property; this is on top of the initial $50 million for the museum's extant gallery space at 231 Bowery -- relocated from its previous home at SoHo.