Scoop: Philadelphia to get a Portal installation

Driving the news: The Portal will open this week in LOVE Park with a livestream connecting to Dublin, Vilnius in Lithuania, and Lublin in Poland, a Portals spokesperson tells Axios.

• The group is still finalizing the exact opening date.

Catch up quick: Lithuanian artist and entrepreneur Benediktas Gylys created the global public art initiative and opened the first Portal in 2021, connecting Vilnius, Lithuania, to Lublin, Poland.

• A Portal is now also located in Dublin.
• While the Portals were originally linked in pairs, the company began connecting all four cities on a rotating livestream in August.

Context: New York City's Portal — the first in the U.S. — opened in May, and was linked only to Dublin at the time.

• However, the video feed was taken offline days later over "inappropriate behavior" from both sides of the Atlantic.
• The NYC-Dublin Portals were later opened with new safeguards.
• The portal in New York City was closed last month so it could be relocated to Philly.

What they're saying: "Portals is a global artwork that is continuously expanding to more locations around planet Earth, inviting people to meet above borders and differences," a Portals spokesperson says.

Editor's note: This piece was updated with new information throughout.