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.
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Memorial in front of the Frank and Ella Hathaway Labour Exhibit Centre,
Saint John, New Brunswick
Canada
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East 34th Street
New York, New York
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New York Botanical Gardens
Bronx, NY
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Front lawn of house on Avenue R
Brooklyn, New York
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Greenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn, New York
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King Lear by Seward Johnson
Garden For Sculpture
Hamilton, New Jersey
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Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
Brooklyn, New York
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
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Emmons Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
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Teatro-Museo Dalí,
Figueres, Spain
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Highway 23B
Leeds, New York
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Florence, Italy
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Saugerties, New York
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“The Peace Fountain is a 1985 sculpture and fountain located next to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in the Morningside Heights section of New York City by Greg Wyatt, sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral. The sculpture depicts the struggle of good and evil, as well as a battle between the Archangel Michael and Satan. The sculpture also contains the Sun, the Moon, and several animals. Although it is called a fountain, there is currently no water on the site. A plaque at the base contains the following inscription:
Peace Fountain celebrates the triumph of Good over Evil, and sets before us the world’s opposing forces—violence and harmony, light and darkness, life and death—which God reconciles in his peace.When the fountain operates, four courses of water cascade down the freedom pedestal into a maelstrom evoking the primordial chaos of Earth. Foursquare around the base, flames of freedom rise in witness to the future. Ascending from the pool, the freedom pedestal is shaped like the double helix of DNA, the key molecule of life. Atop the pedestal a giant crab reminds us of life’s origins in sea and struggle. Facing West, a somnolent Moon reflects tranquility from a joyous Sun smiling to the East. The swirls encircling the heavenly bodies bespeak the larger movements of the cosmos with which earthly life is continuous.
Nine giraffes—among the most peaceable of animals—nestle and prance about the center. One rests its head on the bosom of the winged Archangel Michael, described in the bible as the leader of the heavenly host against the forces of Evil. St. Michael’s sword is vanquishing his chief opponent, Satan, whose decapitated figure plunges into the depths, his head dangling beneath the crab’s claw. Tucked away next to the Sun, a lion and lamb relax together in the peace of God’s kingdom, as foretold by the prophet Isaiah.”
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McDonald Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
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And from a slightly shifted position, a few steps to the left (note the shadow as well):
“Doble Creu” by Carles Berga
Castell de Montjuic
Barcelona, Spain
See this video for more perspectives:
More at Carles Berga
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From an exterior wall of the Sagrada Familia Church designed by Antoni Gaudi.
Barcelona, Spain
The sum of the numbers in every row is 33.
The sum of the numbers in every column is 33.
The sum of the numbers in each diagonal is 33.
The sum of the numbers in the four corners is 33.
The sum of the numbers in the center 2×2 square is 33.
The sum of the numbers in each 2×2 square in each of the corners is 33.
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Central Park
New York, New York
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Central Park
New York, New York
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Washington Street
New York, New York
