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Salvador Dali’s “Dream of Venus” Pavilion Site

Dali-Queens

Long before installation art was the norm, Salvador Dali created perhaps the first example at the 1939 World’s Fair that was held in Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York. The [...]

Noguchi Was a Babe

Noguchi by Abbott

We were really bummed to learn that the recent Hurricane Sandy damaged a whole bunch of Isamu Noguchi’s works in storage in Long Island City, but all the Googling about [...]

Socrates Sculpture Park

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Until 1986, the site of the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens, was an illegal riverside landfill, abandoned and ugly. A group of local artists got together and [...]

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