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41 comments:
Near the climbing wall at the Harkness Building? 60-something and Columbus.
Nope...but thanks for getting the ball rolling!
Central Park?
Nope...but thanks for making the second guess!
On the grounds of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine?
But thanks for making the third guess!
Heh.
OK, are you in Manhattan?
It's in Manhattan!
Is this in a park?
Is it in RIVERSIDE park?
Debbie: No.
Scott: NO.
American Folk Art Museum on 53rd St.?
No, Debbie, but that's the warmest guess so far.
MOMA? Perhaps the sculpture garden?
Slightly warmer, Gary.
Is it on 57th Street?
48th and 3rd?
No, Debbie.
Scott, you've outwarmed Gary!
At the United Nations?
Cooler, Dolph.
Dag Hammerskjold Plaza?
NYU Business School at Washington Square?
Hm. Once again a response of mine didn't go through when I thought it did. Sorry again.
Debbie: No, but you're still somewhat warmish.
Scott: No. But between your previous guess and Gary's, you'd be onto something.
The Citicorp Building?
No, Debbie...but you're about as warm as Scott now.
Municipal Art Society on madison between 50th and 51st?
Gary, I think you're warmest with that one.
The General Elecric Building?
Or even the General ElecTric Building.
NeiTher, Gary--but you're very warm--both in terms of this contest and this post.
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church?
No, Gary...but you're so warm you must be sweating by now!
CBS Building?
No, Scott. Somehow you seem to have gotten derailed....
Are you perhaps in the Park Ave green strip running down the center of Park Ave between 50th and 51st Streets?
No, Gary...you've gotten a little cooler now.
At 345 Park Avenue. A 20-foot-long bronze sculpture by Robert Cook, entitled "Dinoceras," apparently depicting a striated, skeletal animal, is perched on the building's 51st Street plaza.
Oh Dolph, I think you are absolutely right!!
Swoop and Score!
Right you are, Dolph! You've located me at Robert Cook's sculpture Dinoceras, outside the Rudin skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue, just across the street from St. Bartholomew's Church. You can see three views of it at this appreciative site. There's also a very interesting shot of the sculpture here.
From a distance, Dinoceras can look kind of junky; up close, one can find much of interest. In the bronze, one can find suggestions of large bones and masks; at very close inspection, one can spot initials (hard to see in my photos) as well as petroglyph-like figures. And, in the last image posted above, one can find the suggestion of a dinosaur head.
I have mixed feelings about the sculpture...or perhaps its setting on the south side of 345 Park Avenue, where one might get the impression that the owners don't want it out in front (unlike the Calder sculpture proudly displayed in front of the Seagram Building, 345 Park Avenue's neighbor to the north). Although Dinoceras is easy to miss from Park Avenue, it must be a very familiar sight to the building's smokers, who use the plaza around the sculpture as a cigarette zone. So it seems that this Dinoceras is stuck in a kind of tar pit--and I have a feeling it would fare much better in another location, such as a sculpture garden.
Dinoceras shares space on the plaza with a sign for "Lew Rudin Way." Rudin, who died from cancer shortly after 9/11, was one of the city's big movers and shakers; "Lew Rudin Way" refers to the block as well as Rudin's "way of doing things," as Hillary Clinton puts it in a short documentary about the man. The co-founder of the Association for a Better New York, Rudin was known for forging alliances among leaders of government, labor, and business.
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