‘Discovering Columbus’ in Your Living Room #NYCArtDisplays

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Today is Columbus Day. For those of you who visited New York City in the past might have seen the statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle. Yes, that's the statue in the center round about on 59th street and 8th Avenue!

Thanks to the Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi, I had a chance to experience what the city’s pre-eminent statue of Christopher Columbus up close, standing on a large coffee table inside an upscale NY living room and an amazing Central Park backdrop. "The Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi had built a convincingly appointed penthouse-worthy space around the 13-foot-high marble sculpture of Columbus that has presided over Columbus Circle from a height of 60 feet since it was completed by Gaetano Russo in 1892. In doing so, Mr. Nishi has achieved a nifty bit of Surrealist displacement without moving the sculpture an inch" - Roberta Smith from NYTimes. I went there three years ago on Columbus Day, and it was truly one of the more memorable and unique exhibition.

This is what it normally looks like.

Photo credit: Shannontruax

Photo credit: NYTimes

Photo credit: Becomingmiddlebrow

I look so tiny next to the statue's feet!

Central Park view outside the window!

Here's the window view from the other side of the living room!

This is what the living room looks like from the outside in Columbus Circle.

NYC is full of interesting public arts created by artists from around the world. Here are some snapshots of those I've found interesting over in the past:

This is what happened when David meets DVF...

Giant macaron art in Brooklyn. Click here for more about macaron in NYC.

Have you seen this monkey climbing the giant bagels on West Side Highway? Lol

Sing for Hope Pianos installation at Lincoln Center.

This is now being installed on the roof of Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation Building.

Close up and inside of the glass water tower by Artist Tom Fruin.

Giant dandelion seen in Brooklyn Art Festival.
The event was being cancelled last year when more
than 220,000 flooded the little neighborhood in Brooklyn : (