NEW YORK CITY: THROUGH A CAGE

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This pic and the pic below it, are of “Gilded Cage” by Ai Wei Wei for his public installation project “Good Fences make Good Neighbors” occurring throughout the city. The project is a passionate response to the global migration crisis and the “profound social and political impulse to divide people from each other.” This piece is located in Central Park.

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Snow Day in Chelsea, Manhattan.
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Jennifer Lawrence is beginning to take over the city in ads for her new movie, “Red Sparrow,” coming out in March.
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107th Infantry Memorial in Central Park.

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Union General Tecumseh Sherman Monument at Grand Army Plaza in Central Park.

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Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti” album is a photograph of a New York City tenement block located at 96 and 98 St. Mark’s Place in the East Village. This is a closeup of one of the original faces on the building block. It has been painted, but was originally the same color as the building.

2018. New York City.

NEW YORK CITY: SCULPTURAL BEAUTY

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“JEAN-MARC, 2012” (A Portrait of the artist Jean-Marc Bustamante) by Xavier Veilhan
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Venus de Milo sculptures by Jim Dine on 6th Avenue

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Opened on December 27, 1932

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Cuban patriot and author Jose Marti. Sculptor: Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington. Location: Central Park South at Avenue of the Americas. Dedicated to the park in May 1965.
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World War 1, 107th Infantry Honored in Central Park.
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William Tecumseh Sherman, also known as the Sherman Memorial or Sherman Monument, is an outdoor sculpture of William Tecumseh Sherman by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, located at Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan, New York. Cast in 1902 and dedicated on May 30, 1903, the gilded-bronze monument consists of an equestrian statue and an allegorical female figure, Victory. Sherman was a bright military mind who served as a general in the Union Army. Saint-Gardens was an American sculptor (born in Dublin, Ireland) who gained notoriety for his sculptures of the Civil War. Victory is the Greek goddess Nike. 

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September 2017