“Inka Essenhigh: Manhattanhenge” is on-view in our stairwell through August 2019. Wed-Sun 12-6pm | Thurs 12-8pm
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For her panoramic installation in the stairwell, Essenhigh illustrates the story of an imaginary contest staged on a New York City street in which new glass-and-steel condominiums with human attributes engage in a showdown with the city’s more conventional buildings. Drawn directly on the wall, Essenhigh’s anthropomorphic buildings encircle the central motif of the drawing, a golden sunset that replicates “Manhattanhenge”—the effect of the sun when aligned precisely with the city grid—which has long been a mythic part of the city’s monumental architecture. 〰#inkaessenhigh inkaessenhigh
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