Architects’ renderings for the Hudson Yards, currently empty but soon to be developed, adding to an already impossibly congested West Side.
In the top one, let’s see, ridiculous modernist sculpture–check; steel band–yep; breakdancers–got ‘em.
The bottom image looks like Caprica just before the Cylons hit.
Is there a technical term for that dulled fire engine red color that 90% of ridiculous modernist sculpture seems to be?
“Di Suvero Scarlet”?
Actually the Di Suvero sculpture at Liberty Plaza Park, which this one seems to be a slightly surreal parody of, is kind of nice.
- tom moody — 11/19/07 @ 3:24 pm
LOLing so much it hurts
- Travis — 11/19/07 @ 3:57 pm
this is funny post— i like the orange shirt doods playin the steel drums for the dancers
rusted
- charles — 11/19/07 @ 6:26 pm
haha. i wish!
also, i think that sculpture might be doubling as a climbing wall…
all things can be climbed
sculpture is a thing
so sculpture can be climbed
If the goal is to erect a climbing apparatus, then great, I’m all for it but make that the crux and make sculptural/aesthetic qualities a secondary or tertiary goal. In general, I’m not an expert on mixed use spaces, Noguchi had some good ideas.
- charles — 11/19/07 @ 7:20 pm
Ooo. Thanks for the Noguchi link. Never heard of him before. Very interesting. This one looks just like a skatepark!:
http://www.noguchi.org/images/jeffmem1.jpg
WOW! I thought everyone knew Noguchi. I first really knew him here –> http://www.kimbellart.org/Collections/SearchCollections.aspx?P=1&Focus=0 another good artist to bring on board would be James Turrell.
- charles — 11/19/07 @ 8:00 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_orange ?
couldn’t get charles’ noguchi link to work–tried to fix–probably made worse
- tom moody — 11/19/07 @ 9:37 pm
“International orange” sounds about right, though I’m sure few big bucks public sculptors would use it in an ironic, self-conscious way.
- tom moody — 11/19/07 @ 9:39 pm
this should work Constellation (for Louis Kahn)
1980–83
- charles — 11/19/07 @ 9:42 pm
I know it well–having spent many years in that neck of the prairie. The Amon Carter also has Noguchis, as I recall.
- tom moody — 11/19/07 @ 9:53 pm
didn’t know you had been in that neck of the woods. I spent the majority of my time lounging in the Constellation, those basalts are all resting on sunken bases of the same material. Nice place.
- charles — 11/19/07 @ 10:07 pm
I was in Dallas, but as they say, “the best museums in Dallas are in Fort Worth.”
- tom moody — 11/19/07 @ 10:20 pm
Yeah, there are a whole bunch of those sayings, I remember hearing one about guns. I can’t remember what it was but it had to do with guns and Dallas vs. Fort Worth. My sister was living in Denton for a while, I did take everyone to Dunn and Brown Contemporary which is a really great space.
- charles — 11/19/07 @ 10:54 pm
Willis might have just been hired as a Tender to the Grounds there… He’s waiting on off.sec. clearance I believe.
- Christopher — 11/20/07 @ 7:59 am
it kind of looks like the breakdancers are fighting
capoeira?
might be Capoeira
- charles — 11/20/07 @ 3:13 pm
Thats no fight, just a friendly dance of Capoeira. You can tell by all the white spectators so close by:)
What’s missing from these idyllic images? Cops. To stop the Capoeira fighting from turning into real fighting, and to keep New Yorkers safe from the omnipresent threat of terr0r.
- tom moody — 11/20/07 @ 5:19 pm
totally caprica
this is totally an Ocean Spray commercial too
or maybe Capri Sun
- charles — 11/25/07 @ 1:14 am
- tom moody — 6/1/10 @ 11:35 am
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