Roxy Paine at the Met
Each year the Met asks an artist to design a site-specific installation for its roof. This honor comes with a terrific challenge: how to respond to (or deal with) the roof's tremendous views of Central Park and the skyline.
Roxy Paine's Maelstrom, a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide sculpture made from stainless steel, echoes both the material that undergirds the city and the trees that somehow thrive among the concrete and steel.
It was great fun to walk beneath the "branches" as long as we avoided touching the hot metal. Sometimes, though, the silver became too glinting, forcing us to turn back to the views --- maybe that was Paine's point after all: his hot, blinding structure, no matter how funky or fun, can't ever really compete with the city surrounding it. The real art is New York itself.
Roxy Paine's Maelstrom, a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide sculpture made from stainless steel, echoes both the material that undergirds the city and the trees that somehow thrive among the concrete and steel.
It was great fun to walk beneath the "branches" as long as we avoided touching the hot metal. Sometimes, though, the silver became too glinting, forcing us to turn back to the views --- maybe that was Paine's point after all: his hot, blinding structure, no matter how funky or fun, can't ever really compete with the city surrounding it. The real art is New York itself.
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