Archive for November 2023
The Rosenthal Cube Is Back at Guild Hall
For more than 50 years, “Alamo,” Tony Rosenthal’s 15-foot-tall Cor-Ten steel sculpture that pivots on its axis, has been as much as part of its Astor Place neighborhood in Lower Manhattan as the Cooper Union. Indeed, after a three-month absence last summer for refurbishment, its return landed it on the cover of The New Yorker’s Nov. 6 issue, courtesy of a rendering by Jorge Colombo.
Read MoreNew Yorker: Jorge Colombo’s “Astor Place”
In a city as densely constructed as New York, open plazas and courtyards create havens of space—places to gather, to people-watch. And some public art works, like Tony Rosenthal’s “Alamo,” anchor such spaces, providing landmarks that become synonymous with neighborhoods.
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