Thanks to a reader for sending:
“Have you seen the new “art” outside the city vista busboys (5th and K Street, NW). Not a fan of the form, but I am going to drunk climb all over that.”
It certainly is interesting. I’ll have to go back and take some daytime photos. But from the reader’s photo, what do you guys think – thumbs up or down?
I think these were also outside an embassy residence.
I thought this was a pretty cool one. And then it struck me, I think this is the first sculpture of a woman I’ve seen. It’s the Crown Princess Martha of Norway. You can see a bio of her here.
Please accept this awesome sculpture I saw above a door.
While this is a very cool door (to a garden) I was really taken with the sculpture above it. I couldn’t stop staring at it, very powerful.
This is pretty good for Halloween but I think it would kinda freak me out the rest of the year…
There was a great giraffe that I’ve posted before from 1st Street, NW and one off 16th Street, NW but I can’t seem to find them at the moment. Anyway, I have to add this one is from Capitol Hill to the collection.
Back in June it was leaked to me that the Bike Musician sculpture had been selected for the Adams Morgan plaza at Columbia Road and 18th. At that time the Deirdre Thayer Ehlen, DC Creates Public Art Coordinator, denied that a sculpture had been selected. Well, now Greater Greater Washington confirms that the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities has indeed selected the Bike Musician. You can see what the other options were here. It’s funny, at the time, I disliked the Bike Musician. But to tell you the truth it has sorta grown on me. I guess it’s a bit hard to envision what it’ll look like life size. But I think a bit of quirkiness may turn out alright.
UPDATE: Allright, lemons into lemonade as they say. So what the hell is the purpose of the DC Commission on the Arts? I mean if they vote on a project and then table it (see comments), what’s the point? If the Vietnam Memorial selection operated this way, I doubt it ever would’ve been built. Obviously this doesn’t hold the gravitas of the Vietnam Memorial, but tell me what is the point of the Arts Commission? Should it still exist as is? Should it be an elected position? What should the public/community role be in selecting a neighborhood art project like this?
I saw this a while ago before the front yard was completely finished. I think it came out great.
I saw a couple of these sculptures in the plazas on 18th Street and Columbia Road. It seems they are from the Colombian Embassy. Ed. Note: It’s been a long week and I couldn’t find this section on their Web site in English…
Do you like they way they look?