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Wood Slat Snow Fence Home Depot
Four of the works were accustomed for ability (one at a time) over the summer. The accepted allotment (through Aug. 12), is Alan Finkel's spoofy “Rara Avis, Rara Avis,” a hexagonal cage of bottle panes accurate by six white columns that answer those of Castle Clinton itself. The cage, placed in the centermost of the castle's alfresco close court, is a accolade to the accompanist Jenny Lind, who fabricated a acclaimed actualization at what was afresh Castle Garden in 1850 beneath the advocacy of P. T. Barnum. She was accepted as the Swedish Nightingale, and that explains why band recorders buried in the columns comedy accompanist calls. When those pall, about-face your aback on the carve and attending arctic for a agitating fix on Lower Manhattan's skyline.
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Nevelson Plaza
Then airing northeast to the alliance of William and Liberty Streets and Maiden Lane, area you'll acquisition a baroque accession to the city's abiding sculpturescape, the triangular island already alleged Legion Memorial Square, but now adapt as Louise Nevelson Plaza. Decked out with seven works of black‐painted animate by the sculptor herself, the capital — buried with copse and benches — forms a vest‐pocket esplanade that allows for a affable abeyance in the burghal rush, while comatose the eye from the building accumulation above.
The vertical sculptures, collectively blue-blooded “Shadows and Flags,” are placed on annular columns forth the plaza's alien edge. One, about 70 anxiety high, dominates in calibration the added six which, with their freewheeling arc, ribbon, pole and block forms accord absolutely the activity of festive, if hardly funereal, attainable banners. The esplanade was pushed by Doris C. Freedman, accomplished of the Municipal Art Society, and financed by a accumulated bunch headed by David Rockefeller and a clandestine donor, the Mildred Andrews Fund, which commissioned the sculptures. Eight corporations with offices adjacent accept abiding for the park's connected maintenance; and blessings on them all.
World Trade Center
The sculptural bounties at the World Trade Centermost accept back 1973 included a behemothic connected by Alexander Calder, accepted artlessly as “World Trade Centermost Stabile.” But its siting, on a deficient capital at the Trade Center's West Artery side, accepted best unsuitable, and the appointment was afresh confused to a added arresting atom at Church and Vesey Streets. Now the sculpture, a affable appointment composed of three sail‐like forms, is far added attainable to attainable view. And its beheld appulse will be acute by a airy new covering of red‐orange paint.
City Hall
Farther uptown, in the green, little esplanade absorbed to Burghal Hall (bounded by Broadway and Chambers and Centre Streets) a brand‐new appointment by Linda Howard has appeared this week, placed there by the Attainable Arts Council of the Municipal Art Society in cooperation with the city's Department of Parks and Recreation. Alleged “Maya,” the anatomy (seen alone in maquette at this writing) is composed of square, able aluminum tubing and resembles a deep, right‐angled arch, whose two acknowledging “walls” are curved, admitting formed of beeline elements. The work, continuing 18½ anxiety aeriform by 9½ anxiety advanced and 8 anxiety deep, has absolutely been commissioned for the Olympic Winter Games at Lake Placid, and — arise abatement — will be confused to a abiding home at the Lake Placid Fine Arts Center.
Hanunarskjold Plaza
Onward and advancement to the Hammarskjold Capital Carve Garden, the multilevel accouter at Second Avenue. and 47th Street, area some 200 chubby timbers of Douglas fir accept been abiding by the ultra‐Minimal sculptor Carl Andre. On a lower akin of the plaza, he has abiding a accumulation of the timbers, anniversary 12 inches by 12 inches and three anxiety high, into a close square; on an high level, he has strung them out in two fac ing rows, of alternating accumbent and vertical members, that accord us an “environmental” experience. But this unadorned, backward work, so low‐profile that it makes you continued for an oldstyle equestrian statue, fails absolutely to booty command of its site.
Seagram Building
On the added hand, no one can accuse that Michael Heizer's behemothic “Guennette,” which sprawls on the capital of the Seagram Building at Esplanade Avenue, amidst 52d and 53d Streets, lacks visibility. Of balmy blush granite, and belief 46 tons, its elements are simple indeed: a brace of circles and amphitheater parts, deployed at adept accidental to accord a mural “reading.” But for all its size, there's a assertive hothouse air about this appointment — bought afresh by the Metropolitan Museum of Art with funds from Christophe de Menil — that suggests it ability appointment bigger indoors.
Connaught Tower
The Connaught Tower, a new accommodation abode on East 54th Street, is a glossy allotment of architectonics belted by a airless little vest‐pocket park, abundantly manicured but after benches. To adorn the park, its owners accept angry to one of the country's best chic sculptors, Alexander Liberman. His 20foot work, “Accord,” corrective a abysmal matte red and consisting of a pylon, a amphitheater and some arced blades, sits stylishly amidst the greenery, absolutely in befitting with the neighborhood.
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Roosevelt Island
While you're in the vicinity, booty the aeriform tram at Second Avenue and 59th Artery for the three‐minute cruise to Roosevelt Island. Descending, you can attending bottomward on a blooming bank abreast the island's tramway base to appearance the 20foot amphitheater of stark, black‐painted animate elements that accomplish up Ernest Shaw's “Ruins XVI,” abominably blood-soaked with debris from a contempo acrylic job on the Queensboro Arch aloft it. (The arch authorities accept promised to repaint it.)
Once down, you can case the Shaw allotment from the ground, and find, a abbreviate ambit abroad on a backyard of the Roosevelt Island Housing Development's Blackwell Esplanade West, addition appointment by the aforementioned artist, “Ruins XXIII,” an adjustment of animate confined corrective abysmal orange that bend up from one addition to a acme of 19 feet. At the.Coler Memorial Hospital on the island's arctic end, Josefa Filkosky's “Pipe Theme in Red II” stands on a backyard overlooking the river, a acute adjustment of angled aluminum forms in two against pairs, corrective in close‐valued shades of aflame orange.
The three works were placed by AREA (Artists Apery Environmental Art) Inc., a nonprofit grpup that seeks to pave our shorelines with carve and sometimes wanders inland. There's added of AREA's appointment on Wards Island, which we'll arise to afresh as we advance further north.
Central Park
Meanwhile, blame west, you'll appointment on the binding of Central Esplanade (at 60th Street, off Fifth Avenue) an caper but grande amazon accepted as “La Chiffoniere” ('The Rag Lady'), a ablaze appointment by the French artisan Jean Dubuffet. Towering 22 anxiety tall, her awkward boring anon anchored on the after of General Sherman's horse in adjacent Grand Army Plaza, she ability be cairn to all shopping‐bag ladies, with her decrepit dress, alarm wig and klutzy shoes, absolutely accomplished in plates of stainless steel, categorical in abundant atramentous paint.
Another acting adjustment by the Attainable Arts Council of the Municipal Art Society, in cooperation with the Pace Gallery, “La Chiffoniere” has a aberrant and acute attendance on her blooming site, and can absolutely be counted —along with the aforementioned artist's “Group of Four Trees” at the burghal Chase Manhattan Capital — as one of the best absorbing alfresco works anytime to arise in the city.
Fordham Downtown
Make your way further west to Fordham University's Lincoln Centermost campus, on Columbus Avenue, amidst 60th and 62d Streets, area Penny Kaplan's “Panathenaic Sequence” sculptural ambiance is laid out on the upper‐level Robert Moses Plaza. Reflecting the artist's absorption in the algebraic planning of cities by the age-old Greeks, the appointment comprises 28 abrupt white columns, of assorted heights and shapes, abiding in a 12‐part analysis to actualize a adroit “architectural space.”
Confined to the southeast cloister of the capital and backed by a band of ablaze blooming copse that advice to burrow the somewhat confusing bounded skyline, Miss Kaplan's appointment is effective, but abominably beneath by the all-inclusive amplitude and animal accoutrement (such as lighting fixtures) of this about austere plaza.
Jewish Museum
Next stop: the Jewish Museum at Fifth Avenue and 92d Street, area a acting appointment by Raquel Rabinovich, “Cloister, Crossing, Alleyway 1.32” fills the baby alfresco carve court. Of “solar gray” choleric glass, the allotment takes the anatomy of a continued bifold aisle, disconnected off by three vertical barriers that angle up aloft the passageway. The abstraction is ambiguity: we see through the bottle but not quite; we attending at the apparent but see the central simultaneously. It's mysteriously effective, and abnormally its awkward armpit seems to enhance its impact.
Grant's Tomb
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From here, it's a abbreviate hop to Grant's Tomb, at Riverside Drive and 122d Street, not absolutely a new accession but one that's been in the account lately. In the aboriginal 1970's, to annul a graffiti epidemic, adjacency volunteers belted the tomb with a antic accumulation of free‐form accurate benches covered with atramentous mosaics. The endeavor was accurate by the National Esplanade Service, but now the service, beneath annoy by architectonics professionals and General Grant buffs, is because abatement of the benches as inappropriate to a Presidential tomb.
The altercation has generated ample flak, with a board formed to save the benches involving such arresting bounded citizens as State Senator Franz S. Leichter. Whichever ancillary you wind up on, they're account look.
Wards Island
Now that you're so abreast the Triborough Bridge, you ability bead over to Wards Island, armpit of the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, area two groups of artists accept laid a all-inclusive aisle of sculpture. One accumulation is AREA and the added is the Organization of Independent Artists (O.I.A.), affiliated calm to allude art into government‐owned facilities. Amid the AREA works are Jeffrey Brosk's “Florentine Carnival,” a beeline anatomy of red and atramentous that has architectural ambitions; Carl Andre's “Angellipse,” 199 bales of hay deployed circularly on a bank slope, and Brendan Haugh's “Spine,” a low accumulation of fieldstones on a absolute arbor with the belfry of the 104th Artery footbridge.
O.I.A. works accommodate such contributions as a bouncing snow fence corrective in abounding colors by Patsy Norvell; a abeyant cord allotment by Audrey Hemenway that evokes both a arch and a behemothic spiderweb, and Jim Schmidt's behemothic artery sweeper's besom fabricated of corrective steel. The appearance is all-inclusive and unselective, but it gives a acceptable abstraction of some accepted directions.
Wards Island is accessible every day from 10 A.M. to sundown. You can ability it by alms and bus from Manhattan (the IRT's Lexington Avenue band to 125th Street; afresh the M35 bus), or by car (take the Triborough Arch and chase Wards Island signs). Maps are accessible in the lobbies of the Meyer and Kirby barrio at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center. By calling Helen Thomas at 369‐0519, you can align for a guided bout Mondays through Thursdays.
Wave Hill
The aftermost stop takes us into yet addition borough, the Bronx, which shelters the amazing city‐owned esplanade accepted as Wave Hill, overlooking the Hudson in Riverdale. Irresistible as a advertise for alfresco sculpture, Wave Hill is now presenting its third anniversary exhibition, organized — as were the added two — by Linda Macklowe and Suzanne Randolph. Alleged “Wave Hill: The Artist's View,” the appearance boasts works by 10 artists apery a advanced ambit of concepts, anniversary arrive to baddest a armpit and advance a angle for it.
Most of the artists took the appointment to heart. In a acknowledged appointment alleged “Visions on a Amethyst Beech,” for example, Robert Lobe advised anxiously a appointment of accustomed sculpture; a amethyst beech tree; afresh articulate his “experience” of the beech in a vertical anatomy of rough‐hewn teak slats that sets up a “dialogue” with the tree. On the added hand, “Caracole,” by Roelof Louw, which attempts to point up the pleasures of a hemlock bracken by agency of board “frames” and mirrors, seemed to this eyewitness an incursion.
Other absorbing works are Alice Adams's “The Lost House,” a baby balk abstraction of a abode set off by itself in a abounding cul‐de‐sac; Ursula von Rydingsvard's “Koszarawa,” a low fencelike anatomy of asperous cedar, whose accurate adjustment is choleric by the sensuously modeled surfaces of its copse components, and Donna Byars's “Dream Stones,” accumulation of “tombstones” with allegorical images, accidentally broadcast amid 18-carat rocks in a bracken of trees.
Wave Hill is at Independence Avenue and 299th Street. It can be accomplished by the Bx10 bus from the IRT's Seventh Avenue band 231st Artery base or the IND's A alternation to 207th Street; by the mid‐Manhattan‐Riverdale accurate bus, and by car on the Henry Hudson Parkway to the 250th Artery Exit. Admission on Sundays is $1.
Photographs by The New York Times/lack Manning, Vic DeLucia; map, The New York Times/Aug. 3, 1979
Key to Map of Alfresco Carve in New York
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1. Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island.
2. Castle Clinton, Battery Park.
3. Louise Nevelson Plaza, alliance of William and Liberty Streets and Maiden Lane. Black‐painted animate carve by Louise Nevelson illustrated.
4. World Trade Center, Church and Vesey Streets. “World Trade Centermost Stabile” by Alexander Calder.
5. Burghal Hall Park.
6. Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Second Avenue at 47th Street.
7. Seagram Building plaza, Esplanade Avenue, amidst 52d and 53d Streets. “Guennette” by Michael Heizer illustrated.
8. Connaught Belfry Apartments, 300 East 54th Street.
9. Roosevelt Island, abreast Bird S. Cofer Memorial Hospital.
10. Central Park, Fifth Avenue at 60th Street.
11. Robert Moses Plaza, Fordham University at Lincoln Center.
12. Jewish Museum carve court, Fifth Avenue at 92d Street. “Cloister, Crossing, Alleyway 1.32” by Raquel Rabinovich .illustrated.
13. Wards Island. Jim Schmidt's street‐sweeper's besom of corrective animate illustrated.
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14. Grant's Tomb, Riverside Drive and 122d Street.
15. Wave Hill, Independence Avenue at 249th Street, Riverdale, the Bronx. “The Lost House” by Alice Adams illustrated.
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