So... G.O.A.T.s...
10I live in NY City, which is an interesting place and pretty much not at all like it is usually portrayed on TV and in movies.
First weekend of July, @publicart stayed at my place for a couple of days before heading into “the city” (i.e. Manhattan) for a multi-day meeting of a cabal to which he belongs. We did the bagel thing and had pretty good Indian food, two activities I require for all my out of town guests.*
Since @publicart was going to being doing touristy stuffs with the cabal in the city, we were looking for something not-so-touristy to do in Queens. One of the web sites suggested Socrates Sculpture Park, which I remembered as interesting from when I’d been there ten or so years ago while waiting for daughter unit 1 to take the SHSAT. Plus, the whole ART thing in PublicArt’s name and all.
Anyways, PA and I decided to go and were quite pleasantly surprised by the main exhibit, titled G.O.A.T. again. The pix I took are below and PA may post some of the ones he took (or maybe not).
After the park, we walked down the street and visited the Noguchi Museum which was also quite interesting. I didn’t take pix there, though I did get yelled at for touching one of the sculptures (and then we were followed around for the next 30-45 minutes by that woman and watched in a very hawk-like fashion).
BTW- PA came up with the name Liberty Balls for the sculpture in the park that looks like the remains of the Statue of Liberty’s orchiectomy.
*@meh can confirm this requirement.
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I liked the parts with the goats.
The first two G.O.A.T.s we saw, tho we entered from the back entrance rather than the main one, so the official G.O.A.T. ordering likely starts elsewhere.
You can see the Liberty Balls in the background on the left.
What’s that in the distance? Is that the Scap-goat? By George, I do believe it is!!
(Note my artfully placed shadow.)
We finally made it around to the park’s main entrance.
This is the official sign for the 17 smaller G.O.A.T.s
(I presume it is acceptable to climb the Scap-goat, since nothing that I can recall warned us not to do so.)
(Apparently tho it is ok to sit on this sign and shit, at least if you are a bird.)
And finally, what I know that some of you have been waiting for with baited breath, the Bipartition Bell (aka Liberty Balls)…
(Again, note the artful shadow placement.)
This is what’s inside of it, btw:
They also apparently allow people to come and paint self portraits or some such. (An elderly friend who was in the hospital called about this time and distracted me for a while and I kinda stopped taking pix… PA may have some more of this section.) Some of the portraits were extremely good, making interesting use of color and the like, tho most were about what I might accomplish on one of my better days.