Art in Manhattan

Isamu Noguchi - Red Cube, 1968, steel, aluminum, 24 feet tall, installation view, 140 Broadway, New York feat

Isamu Noguchi’s Red Cube sculpture – A masterpiece in New York

Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading

Red Cube is a gigantic monumental sculpture by the American landscape architect and artist Isamu Noguchi, located out in Lower Manhattan. The minimalist masterpiece combines architecture and art, creating a fascinating monochromatic cube that balances nimbly on one of its corners. Notwithstanding its title, Red Cube isn’t an actual cube but rather looks as though […]

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Félix González-Torres’ bed billboards – Beautifully confrontational

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

Being born in Cuba, Félix González-Torres (1957-1996) left his homeland at an early age. He moved to New York City in 1979 and registered at the Whitney Independent Study Program. His revelation to Critical Theory granted him a source of inspiration and influence, especially in the literature of French thinkers Michel Foucault and Nicolas Bourriaud

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Agnes Denes - Wheatfield - A Confrontation, 1982, Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan

Why did Agnes Denes create this Wheatfield in New York?

Environmental Art, Installations / 10 minutes of reading

Agnes Denes is a renowned Hungary-American and artist with numerous pioneering artworks that carried a prophetic message. She is known for her groundbreaking use of metallic inks and other non-traditional materials in creating an unusual body of exquisitely rendered prints and drawings that delineate her explorations in philosophy, mathematics, science, geography, and other disciplines. In

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That time when David Hammons held his Bliz-aard Ball Sale

Performances / 3 minutes of reading

Have you ever seen a piece of art based on snowballs? You probably have. But, David Hammons’ Bliz-aard Ball Sale is much different from all those. In it, Hammons, the artist, brings to life everyday issues that Americans faced in the 1980s. While naming the work Bliz-aard Ball Sale, Hammons was also referring to the

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Some of Vito Acconci’s most influential performance pieces

Performances, Video Art / 5 minutes of reading

Vito Acconci is one of the most influential American artists. He was a poet, an architect, and a pioneer of performance art. Acconci is commemorated in art history for his artworks, including the ones we are going to discuss in this article. Influence His artwork involved crossing the boundaries, including the public-private, real-world, and art

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Cai Guo-Qiang’s rainbow explodes over New York

Performances / 2 minutes of reading

The Transient Rainbow by Cai Guo-Qiang was a minute-long show of color and light and it was held at the East River, just over the southern tip of Roosevelt Island. The event was held by the Museum of Modern Art, New York to commemorate MOMA’s temporary move to Queens. The Transient Rainbow was displayed for

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What made Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc sculpture so controversial?

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Richard Serra is a leading sculptor who is known for creating minimalist artwork. While he began his career after studying fine arts at Yale University, he created the sculpture Tilted Arc in 1981 in New York after celebrating his fortieth birthday. By this time, he was already highly recognized. This is

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What is Xu Bing’s gigantic Phoenix project?

Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

Xu Bing is an internationally celebrated Chinese artist. He works in a couple of disciplines and materials but the most common is ink painting, printmaking, and calligraphy. Xu has worked with pigs and silkworms. Though, one of his well-known installations is a gigantic flying dragon titled Phoenix. How was Phoenix created? The installation features two

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What is Yvette Mattern’s global rainbow?

Light Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Global Rainbow, After the Storm is a monumental outdoor laser installation by American artist Yvette Mattern, viewable to millions of New Yorkers. Organized in response to Hurricane Sandy, the artist projected seven beams of high power laser light over communities hit hard by the storm, originating on Manhattan’s Lower West Side and spanning across Brooklyn

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Why did Josephine Meckseper install oil pumps in Midtown Manhattan?

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

In March 2012, two monumental kinetic sculptures, each about 7.5m tall, transformed a disused public space in Midtown Manhattan into an art piece by Josephine Meckseper. Though mirroring the forms and materials of the mid-century oil industry, the artist locates her work firmly inside the contemporary debate about American business, wealth and consumerism. What inspired

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Artist David Brooks & These massive rooftops on Manhattan’s last undeveloped lot

Architecture, Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

Imagine viewing rooftops at eye level with pedestrians in Manhattan, New York? That seems nearly impossible when you consider New York has more than 300 high-rise buildings taller than 150 meters. This means that to really appreciate the city’s landscape of rooftops, one has to climb to the rooftop of another landmark building or take

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Barbara Kruger wrapped entire buses in her iconic prints

Installations / 6 minutes of reading

From the late 1990s to recent years, Pictures Generation conceptual artist/activist Barbara Kruger has wrapped several buses in her prints – in New York, Los Angeles and Cologne. Her work is usually known for its bold, eye-catching design and philosophical themes. About Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger is a New Jersey-born conceptual artist known for her

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Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Trees covers entire buildings in New York

Installations / 1 minute of reading

In celebration of Yayoi Kusama’s past retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art earlier in 2012, two off-site projects took place. In one of them, Kusama’s rhythmic dotted “Yellow Tree motif transformed a construction site in the Meatpacking District in Manhattan into a giant canvas. A detail of the original painting Yellow Trees (1994)

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Tom Fruin’s Watertower – Made of 1000 scrap plexiglass pieces

Architecture, Sculptures, Stained Glass Windows / 5 minutes of reading

Not many artists enjoy the privilege of having their pieces displayed in New York City’s prime locations, but artist Tom Fruin does enjoy this. His creation of the Water Tower is a sight to behold and can be easily viewed from FDR Drive, parks and streets of Dumbo, Manhattan Bridge, Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge Park

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Bruce Davidson’s sexy & scary subway photos

Documentary photography, Graffiti, Paintings, Photography / 7 minutes of reading

Bruce Davidson was born on 5 September 1933 in Oak Park, Chicago. He began taking photographs when he was just ten years old after his mother built him a darkroom. He was got hired at Austin Camera as a stock boy. Davidson learned technical nuances of photography from Al Cox, including lighting, printing, and dye

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