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Arch, NYC

February 8, 2018

Public art is never static. People, traffic, birds, squirrels, weather and time of day all change things up. Take, for example,  Ai Weiwei's 37-foot-high steel cage in Washington Square Park (until February 11, 2018). By day, it was a total selfie magnet for tourists. At night, it ruled the park. Darkness transformed Weiwei's center silhouette (modeled after a 1937 gallery doorway by Marcel DuChamp) into a beckoning giant keyhole. Floodlights on the arch turned park walkers into miniature moving cut-outs. Perhaps the conjoined couple in the cage had just stepped out to explore the world around them? I wondered if they might snap back into place at dawn, like two missing puzzle pieces.

In #Art, Resistance Tags #GoodFences, #AiWeiwei, #ArtintheParks, #PublicArtFund, #Arch, #DuChamp
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