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Tom Otterness (born 1952) is an American sculptor who is one of America's most prolific public artists. [1] Otterness's works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums around the world, notably in New York City's Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City [2] and Life Underground in the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue New York Subway station.
Otterness said the subject of the work is "the impossibility of understanding life in New York" [1] and describes the arrangement of the individual pieces as being “scattered in little surprises.” [5] Art critic Olympia Lambert wrote that "the lovable bronze characters installed there are joined together by a common theme of implied ...
The world's largest bronze sculpture of modern times stood between the Twin Towers on the Austin J. Tobin Plaza of the World Trade Center in New York City from 1972 until the September 11 attacks. The work, weighing more than 20 tons, was the only remaining work of art to be recovered largely intact from the ruins of the collapsed Twin Towers.
Bounded by Lawrence and Duffield Streets, the square is frequently adorned by modern art exhibits. Two pieces called Alligator and Visionary are part of the Commons' permanent public art collection. Designed by sculptor Tom Otterness, they were installed in 1998. [12]
The Times Square Show's historic significance was established in The Times Square Show Revisited exhibition held at The Hunter College Art Galleries that was curated by Shawna Cooper, post-war art historian and graduate of the Hunter College Master’s Program in Art History, in association with Karli Wurzelbacher, also a Hunter alumnae and a PhD candidate in twentieth-century American art at ...
The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library is a research library originally built on the collections of books and papers of founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and the Whitney Museum's first director, Juliana Force. The library operates in the West Chelsea area of New York City. [51] It contains Special Collections and the Whitney Museum Archives.
This complex was renovated at the beginning of the 21st century. There are several MTA New York City Transit Authority training facilities located in the mezzanine. The station complex contains an artwork by Tom Otterness called Life Underground, which features whimsical bronze sculptures, including a sewer alligator, scattered about the station.
Metronome is a large public art installation located along the south end of Union Square in New York City. The work was commissioned by the Related Companies, developers of One Union Square South, with the participation of the Public Art Fund and the Municipal Art Society. The $4.2 million provided by the developer makes it one of the largest ...