



Jaume Plensa’s monumental portrait Behind the Walls & Nick Cave’s oversized bronze gramophone growing from his raised fist, suggesting the power to activate change.
Part of Frieze Sculpture (2019) @Rockefeller Center
June 7th, 2019
Jaume Plensa’s monumental portrait Behind the Walls & Nick Cave’s oversized bronze gramophone growing from his raised fist, suggesting the power to activate change.
Part of Frieze Sculpture (2019) @Rockefeller Center
June 7th, 2019
Astronomers Monument is a product of the great economic depression of the 1930s, when New Deal initiatives created federally-funded work programs to employ skilled workers at a time when they would otherwise remain idle and without income. One of the first of these programs, the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), began in December 1933. Soon thereafter, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Park Commission, PWAP commissioned a sculpture project on the grounds of the new Observatory (which was under construction).
Using a design by local artist Archibald Garner and materials donated by the Womens’ Auxiliary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Garner and five other artists sculpted and cast the concrete monument and figures. Each artist was responsible for sculpting one astronomer; one of the artists, George Stanley, was also the creator of the famous “Oscar” statuette. The other artists involved were Arnold Forester, Djey el Djey, Gordon Newell, Roger Noble Burnham.
The six astronomers featured on the monument are among the most influential and important in history. The six figures represent the Greek astronomer Hipparchus (about 125 B.C.), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Isaac Newton (1642-1727), and John Herschel (1738-1822). Albert Einstein was considered for inclusion, but planers ultimately decided it would be inappropriate to feature someone still alive (the monument was completed in 1934; Einstein died in 1955). [sources: The Living New Deal & Griffith Observatory]
May 10th, 2019
Keep going, nothing to see here…
Giant Binoculars is a 1991 sculpture by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen. The building that surrounds them, known – you guessed it – as the ”Binoculars Building”, is a Frank Gehry design.
Venice, Los Angeles
May 8th, 2019
An assemblage sculpture of 202 vintage street light lampposts from the 1920s and 1930s, created by Chris Burden with the express intention to be placed in the empty plaza in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on Wilshire Boulevard. The cast iron lampposts range from 20 to 30 feet in height and were salvaged from Los Angeles neighborhoods. The installation is lit up from dusk to dawn and is solar-powered. Especially popular after dark, be prepared to drive a few rounds before finding a parking spot close enough.
Urban Light by Chris Burden, 2008.
LACMA, L.A.
May 7th, 2019
April 27th, 2019
Jan Karski sitting in front of the Polish Consulate in Manhattan.
“All freedom-seeking people around the world should know Karski’s story.”
– Bill Clinton
January 4th, 2019
It was December 30th, 2018 and we were getting ready to welcome another year in the City.
Artwork by Sarah E. Brook
Viewfinding, 2018
New and recycled wood, cast acrylic, paint, poetry
Hudson River Greenway
December 30th, 2018
With Mrs. Rabbitgirl & Mr. Dogman
At the Table of Love, 237 Park Avenue
By Gillie and Marc, proud parents of the intrusive Paparazzi we spotted lurking in Greenwich Village back in 2017.
July 28th, 2018
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