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Atlas on 5th Ave

A clash of world views – This classical Titan god is standing facing a 19th century gothic church across a busy Manhatten street.

Atlas on 5th Ave

Atlas on 5th Ave

Posted on 31st July 2008

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Skyscraper

A big metal structure near the Rockerfeller Centre

Skyscraper

Skyscraper

Posted on 31st July 2008

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Liberty on tour

Scaled-down, multi-coloured statues of Libery have appeared all over Manahatten.

Liberty on tour

Posted on 31st July 2008

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Liberty on tour

Scaled-down, multi-coloured statues of Libery have appeared all over Manahatten. This one on the junction of Broadway and 150th Street.

Liberty on tour

Liberty on tour

Posted on 30th July 2008

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New york sidewalk

A New York pavement artist's political portraits in the upper east side

New york sidewalk

Posted on 30th July 2008

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Vulcan

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was a Scottish proto-pop artist of Italian parents. He designed a lively mosaic for Tottenham Ct Road Central Line platform on the London Underground, was a keen collector of advertising ephemera and a prolific pop-collagist. He spent his mature years as a sculptor producing lumpen, mechanical-looking sculpture. These were often overly illustrative works which yoked the human form to the mechanical. I wish he hadn't. They are ugly and outdated (this kind of approach was far more successful, even exiting and dynamic in the early 1900s, when it was new – in the work of artists like Jacob Epstein and his 'Rock Drill'). It has always been an easy call for local councils and developers to call on the established well,tried names and commission one of Paolozzi's unsmypathetic, brutal pop-cyborgs or mechanical collages in an attempt to offset and even culturally validate an already over-commercialised and brutally designed cut-price-modernist concrete square or office block. Although such projects are usually devoted to anything but art and culture, this one, strangely enough houses the offices of Arts Council England's NE regional office. Arts Council and other workers in the building are greeted each day by this figure. Paolozzis – bin-'em! They just make the ugly uglier!

Vulcan

Posted on 11th July 2008

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Clarion

For one of the British Modernist ‘New Generation’ sculptors of the 1960s, Philip King has worked in a wide range of materials including steel, bronze, wood, fibreglass, slate, clay, wax and plastics. Painted sculpture? Why not? The Ancient Greeks did it! Commissioned in 1981 by Romulus Construction (builders of the Fulham Centre, beside which the work is positioned). The sculpture has always met with mixed reaction. The artist saw it "...in terms of a musical composition; The lower part builds up to a crescendo with a burst at the top". It certainly changes shape and reinvents itself at every angle – in a similar way to the work of his art college tutor and mentor, Anthony Caro.

Clarion

Posted on 20th June 2008

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Small Work Horse

Ok, so it's not as horrible as some of the things on this site (see 'bin-it' bad art group). But since I first saw it (almost every day) when I worked for a while in Ealing, I always thought it just seemed too lumpy, dumb and awkward to be beautiful – and too naturalistic, and neither awkward nor ugly enough to be interesting. Also, its proximity to a Lloyds Bank (at the sign of the black horse!)in a shopping centre just doesn't do it for me!

Small Work Horse

Posted on 4th June 2008

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Wall of comment

Some kind of reaction to what's happening to the Bush, as we get a brand new commercial development on the old 1908 exhibition site?

Wall of comment

Wall of comment

Posted on 28th May 2008

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