NYPress.com - New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more » Justin Matherly http://nypress.com New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more Fri, 17 May 2013 22:07:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Giant Ketchup Bottle Pops Up in City Hall Park http://nypress.com/giant-ketchup-bottle-pops-up-in-city-hall-park/ http://nypress.com/giant-ketchup-bottle-pops-up-in-city-hall-park/#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 16:23:16 +0000 NY Press http://nypress.com/?p=47025 The Public Art Fund Strikes Again
If you were passing by City Hall Park last Wednesday, you may have witnessed Mayor Michael Bloomberg casually eating popcorn in front of a 30-foot-tall ketchup bottle. Rest assured, your tap water has not been contaminated. Bloomberg was simply there to give the inaugural speech for Common Ground, the Public Art Fund’s newest exhibition.
Centered around the themes of public space and monuments, the exhibition features the works of 10 international artists and can be found in City Hall Park until Nov. 30. In his brief speech, Mayor Bloomberg commented on “Daddies Ketchup,” Paul McCarthy’s 30-foot-tall sculpture, hoping that such works of art would “make us think and encourage us to laugh.”
On a slightly more serious note, curator Nicholas Baume said the exhibition was “an homage to the power and potential of the spaces we share, our common ground.”

Text by Laurent Berstecher. Photos by RYAN MCCUNE/ PatrickMcMullan.com

Nicholas Baume, Christian Jankowski, Matthew Day Jackson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Justin Matherly, Susan Freedman

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Daddies Ketchup by Paul McCarthy

The Choir

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