Wednesday, November 29, 2023 – A GRAND LOBBY WITH ART AND A VERY LARGE TREE

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29,  2023

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

A GIANT TREE

AND 

PAPARAZZI DOGS
 

ISSUE  #1135

THE LOBBY OF 787 SEVENTH AVENUE
HAS THE #3 LARGEST TREE IN MANHATTAN.

WHILE WALKING THRU THE BUILDING I COULD NOT BELIEVE THE SIZE OF THIS TREE!

Mural with Blue Brushstroke is a 1986 mural painting by Roy Lichtenstein that is located in the atrium of the Equitable Tower (now known as the AXA Center) in New York City. The mural was the subject of the book Roy Lichtenstein: Mural With Blue Brushstroke. The mural includes highlights of Lichtenstein’s earlier works.

CURRENT LOCATION – Oct 2015 – Now
75 Rockefeller Centre, New York 10111
Visit the sculpture, click for map >

Gillie and Marc’s Paparazzi Dogs are the world’s most notorious photographers. The four bronze Dogmen have sniffed out the rich and famous in Melbourne’s Federation Square, the Jing’an Sculpture Park in Shanghai, and New York’s Greenwich Village and the Rockefeller Center. The sculptures have gone from being an art experiment about photographing celebrities to sought-after celebrities in their own right. When Gillie and Marc first launched the series, within days the life-sized dogs went viral with millions of visitors coming to see them. People from all over the world, along with celebrities such as Snoop Dog, were eager to pose with the Pap Dogs, quickly giving them a celebrity status. Trey Ratcliff, considered to be one of the world’s best contemporary photographers, also came and was followed by 500 professional photographers to take a photo of him. Gillie and Marc had intentionally created the interactive piece to expose the pack mentality of the media and how we hunt celebrities to get their photo.

I visited the park today on a beautiful sunny morning. Many visitors stopped The dogs are facing the elevators and waiting to snap a celebrity!

How appropriate that the dogs are in Rockefeller Center, ready to snap a VIP arriving to SNL.

Just one more photo please!

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NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

Affordable Housing and the Future of New York’s Open Space

Learn the history of affordable housing in New York City and how Roosevelt Island, created in 1975, is an integral part of that history. Hear about ideas of open space that were supported by this approach to housing and how they are being reconsidered today.

Matthias Altwicker, AIA LEED AP, is an architect and an associate professor of architecture at New York Institute of Technology. Both his practice and research focus on housing and open space, including collaborations with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and municipal administrations in New York City and Long Island.
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THE DOG PARK ON EAST SIDE NEAR COLER
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