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Telephone By Randy Polumbo

Phone Booth
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Telephone is a sculpture made from a re-purposed phone booth filled with blown glass, aluminum, silver and LEDS. Anyone familiar with local artist Randy Polumbo from Previous Posts here on The Gig will recognize his work immediately.

Phone Booth Detail
Telephone Interior Detail

Photographed at the Portal Art Fair, held at Federal Hall National Memorial in NYC, May 2016.

Update: Randy informs me that this piece is on exhibit at The Hollows, located at 151 Bedford Ave. (between N8 and N9) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for most of the Summer, too!

Phone Booth

Modern Art Monday Presents: East West Gate By Yu Yu Yang

East West Gate 1
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Near the Water Street side of the plaza at 88 Pine Street is a two-piece abstract sculpture called East West Gate, by Taiwanese artist Yu Yu Yang  (1926 – 1997), consisting of a large shiny stainless steel disk standing upright next to a 16-foot-tall steel rectangle with a circular hole in it, suggesting that the disk has been cut from the rectangle.
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Aakash Nihalani’s Portal at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Aakash Nihalani Signage
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I’ve written about street-turned-fine artist Aakash Nihalani previously on The Gig, when one of his geometric neon sculptures was a featured Pink Thing of The Day.
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