52 Photos Project

The prompt for Week 17: recycled/repurposed

Part of a big El Anatsui exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
last year, this is called "Drainpipe" and was specifically
tailored to the space it occupied (as it is wherever
it's installed).  These are tin-can lids strung
together with copper wire. (There was another huge
work there that Anatsui made using bottle caps.)
Beats adding at all to the landfill, doesn't it?

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Weekend Reflections

There's always some interesting public
art in City Hall Park.  This is "Suncatcher,"
by the French conceptualist Daniel Buren;
it's part of the current exhibit, called
The Lightness of Being—a group show featuring
"playful" works by 11 different artists.

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Weekend Reflections

Mimi Vang Olsen started out painting people, but
switched to animals when she realized how much
New Yorkers love their pets. I read that a 30" by 40"
oil painting of a dog or cat starts at $2,500. Business
must be good because this storefront studio has been
here for a long time—and she's able to close up the
shop from June to September.

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weekend reflections

Reflected in a mirrored wall up on
the roof of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in NYC, Roxy Paine's magnum
opus, "Maelstrom."
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Photo Friday Challenge—"the face"

And this one was created by one of
the legions of art students who
study in Florence.