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The MET
Hexagonal Mirrored Sculpture, by Anish Kapoor
"As Yet Untitled is a large concave disc about 12 feet in diameter made up of thousands of tiny hexagonal mirrors each less than an inch across. Its shiny fractured surface reflects light from all directions. As you approach it, your image dances around and is fragmented until, moving closer the flickering images of self finally coalesce into your own not quite focused, picture. Kapoor is playing with vanity, illusion, infinity, reflection and the continuous echo of the role of the artist and the viewer in the work."BEAUTY & Essex on a Sunday Morning
Lower East Side
"BEAUTY & Essex Lounge occupies what used to be M. Katz, a furniture store, next to the Essex Street Market. The front is set up as a pawn shop, with Flying V guitars and a Raymond Chandler-esque blonde behind the register. A back door leads to the night life emporium...""A bit of matter and a little bit more"
-Lawrence Seiner
MoMA PS1
Originally part of the exhibition Rooms in 1976, Lawrence Weiner wrote the title phrase on the inside of the front entrance as well as on the outside of the back door of MoMA PS1. The original doors, made of wood and metal, were removed during the renovation in 1997. After the renovation was completed, the artist was invited back to recreate the piece on both sides of the glass windows of the front doors.The Bathrobe, by Sophie Calle
Everyday Epiphanies
The MET
"I was eighteen years old. I rang the bell. He opened the door. He was wearing the same bathrobe as my father. A long white terrycloth robe. He became my first love. For an entire year, he obeyed my request and never let me see him naked from the front. Only from the back. And so, in the morning light, he would get up carefully turning himself away, and gently hiding inside the white bathrobe. When it was all over he left the bathrobe behind with me."41st & Newtown Road Junction
Astoria
"The organization which owns this centuried structure, found at 41-05 Newtown Road amidst the trackless sands of Astoria, is a local Democratic club which boasts an influential and famous list of members and associates. It is named for Chief Powhatan (actual name Wahunsenacawh) who was the father of the famous Pocahontas."