8.5.24 — The Seeds of New York
Sometimes found art is better than the real thing. When it comes to art in the parks, how could it not be? It came in response to the park, in the form of blossoms and bird nests. Talk about site-specific sculpture.
So it was in Madison Square Park in spring, where yellow markers just off the ground rose to almost the exact size of the pigeons that moved freely among them. They could just have alit themselves, and their spare fabric or plastic could have been taking flight. Now if only they could have nibbled on what Rose B. Simpson calls her Seed, through September 22, and maybe they will.
Summers in New York, art sows its seed everywhere, including the first ever Harlem Gardens—but I leave that to a separate review. This year’s tour of New York summer sculpture runs instead from Brooklyn and Queens to the very tip of northern Manhattan, with stops along the way for Park Avenue, the High Line, City Hall Park, and Simpson in Madison Square Park, starting with an extra post tomorrow on the Met roof. What, though, could be nicer than the found art of the city itself?
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