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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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OK, so this is technically more like a “Pink-ish Thing,” since it’s called Violet Block in Two Parts. But, pinkish is close enough for me! This sculpture by the late great John McCracken is currently on display in the new home of the Whitney Museum, which I’ve managed to visit twice already since it opened in late April of this year.
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Mirror Stratum (1966) by Robert Smithson (1938 – 1973) is made up of Stacked Mirrors on a Formica-covered base and makes for such a lovely, pyramid-shaped reflective thing that’s challenging to try to get decent photos of. The reflection you see slightly in the above photos is a fragment of the phrase, Wall Pitted By a Single Rifle Shot, which is a caption (itself a work of art by Lawrence Weiner) written high across the wall closest to the sculpture.
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Photographed by Gail at The Park Restaurant on 10th Avenue and 17th Street, NYC.
OK guys, this cuteness factor of this video featuring a Welsh Corgi discovering his reflection in a mirror is just off the charts.
Thanks to Neatorama for the tip!