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West 14th Street Subway Station
New York, New York

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You may remember the last beer can sculpture, and how I wasn’t sure what it was (I was thrown by the six pointed Star of David at the top). Well since this beer can menorah has now shown up right next to it, it seems clear that the other sculpture must have been, indeed, a Christmas tree. Though, frankly, if you drink this much beer, you’re likely to see anything or maybe nothing at all.

The American mass obsession with guns is clearly unique and filmmaker Richard Chisolm has made an intriguing short documentary called Gun Show which details one artist’s attempt to come to grips with the national gun worship.
Click on the triangle above or the mp3 link to hear my review as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program heard on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.



Manet’s painting at the bottom, and above, two views of the three-dimensional representation at the Garden For Sculpture. You can join me in an audio tour of the garden here.

Two weeks ago I drove down to the wonderful Garden for Sculpture, an outdoor sculpture museum in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, which features, among many others, the works of Seward Johnson and three-dimensional sculptural reproductions of paintings by Monet and Manet. I bought my timed tickets online, stuffed some COVID masks in my pocket, and jumped into the car. So come along with me on this little adventure, and you can join me virtually as I head down the highway and tour the Garden For Sculpture, on location.
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear our report as broadcast today on WBAI FM NY and Pacifica stations across the nation.

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Within the Garden For Sculpture park, Seward Johnson’s hyper-realistic bronze sculptures are meant to be stumbled across in unexpected locations. The book in the backgound is a physics textbook and by the man’s left hand is a Blackberry phone covered with mud.
At the extraordinary Grounds For Sculpture park in Hamilton Township, New Jersey

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Roses of Yesterday by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
Brooklyn, New York