Thursday, July 10, 2025 – Walk through a trippy mirrored maze in Rockefeller Center this month

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Walk through a trippy mirrored maze in Rockefeller Center this month

See if you can make find your way through this

Midtown maze

Thursday,  July 10, 2025

TIMEOUT NEW YORK

Issue # 1481

Walking through Midtown can feel like a maze, but at this trippy mirrored art installation, that’s exactly the point. You’ll lose your bearings and find yourself again inside this immersive art installation where space feels endless and ever-changing. 

Called Reflection Point, the piece by Brooklyn-based artist duo Wade and Leta (Wade Jeffree and Leta Sobierajski) is on view for free at Rockefeller Center until July 20. Take a moment to stroll through its shifting pathways and definitely snap a few photos while you’re there. 
As you walk through the colorful maze, you’ll spot bold, graphic shapes that function as doors, welcoming visitors to push through and uncover new routes for some playful exploration. Color guides the eye through certain passages, while reflection and refraction conceal others, inviting constant reevaluation of direction and experience.
 

“The piece is an immersive, kinetic environment of color and mirrored surfaces, inviting viewers to move, reflect, and participate in the iconic location,” artists Wade and Leda said in a statement. “It’s a work about perception, process, and the shifting relationship between technology and art.” 

To create the larger-than-life installation, the artist duo used Whisk, a Google Labs AI experiment that enables fast, visual ideation and brainstorming. Then, they combined mirrored aluminum composite panel, plywood, stainless steel, vinyl, and rubber to take the ideas off the screen and into reality. 

Though the artists have created participatory artwork in places like London, Tokyo and Beijing, this is their first large-scale outdoor artwork in NYC.

“The installation marks a personal milestone for us after 15 years of living and working in New York,” they said. 

PHOTO OF THE DAY

CHECK OUT THE RIVERCROSS DISPLAY WINDOW WITH 2 MAPS SHOWING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ISLAND AS IT WAS IN 1969 AND HOW IT IS TODAY.

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