Thursday, December 07, 2006

WHERE WAS I? It's somewhere in the five boroughs. Leave your guesses in the comments section.
























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Photos: David Marc Fischer

41 comments:

Anonymous said...

Near the climbing wall at the Harkness Building? 60-something and Columbus.

David Marc Fischer said...

Nope...but thanks for getting the ball rolling!

Anonymous said...

Central Park?

David Marc Fischer said...

Nope...but thanks for making the second guess!

Scott said...

On the grounds of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine?

David Marc Fischer said...

But thanks for making the third guess!

David Marc Fischer said...

Heh.

Anonymous said...

OK, are you in Manhattan?

David Marc Fischer said...

It's in Manhattan!

Anonymous said...

Is this in a park?

Scott said...

Is it in RIVERSIDE park?

David Marc Fischer said...

Debbie: No.

Scott: NO.

Anonymous said...

American Folk Art Museum on 53rd St.?

David Marc Fischer said...

No, Debbie, but that's the warmest guess so far.

Anonymous said...

MOMA? Perhaps the sculpture garden?

David Marc Fischer said...

Slightly warmer, Gary.

Anonymous said...

Is it on 57th Street?

Scott said...

48th and 3rd?

David Marc Fischer said...

No, Debbie.

Scott, you've outwarmed Gary!

Anonymous said...

At the United Nations?

David Marc Fischer said...

Cooler, Dolph.

Anonymous said...

Dag Hammerskjold Plaza?

Scott said...

NYU Business School at Washington Square?

David Marc Fischer said...

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.

Anonymous said...

The Citicorp Building?

David Marc Fischer said...

No, Debbie...but you're about as warm as Scott now.

Anonymous said...

Municipal Art Society on madison between 50th and 51st?

David Marc Fischer said...

Gary, I think you're warmest with that one.

Anonymous said...

The General Elecric Building?

Anonymous said...

Or even the General ElecTric Building.

David Marc Fischer said...

NeiTher, Gary--but you're very warm--both in terms of this contest and this post.

Anonymous said...

St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church?

David Marc Fischer said...

No, Gary...but you're so warm you must be sweating by now!

Scott said...

CBS Building?

David Marc Fischer said...

No, Scott. Somehow you seem to have gotten derailed....

Anonymous said...

Are you perhaps in the Park Ave green strip running down the center of Park Ave between 50th and 51st Streets?

David Marc Fischer said...

No, Gary...you've gotten a little cooler now.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

Oh Dolph, I think you are absolutely right!!

Anonymous said...

Swoop and Score!

David Marc Fischer said...

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.