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大都会博物馆的空中花园2010
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每年都去看大都会顶楼空中花园的作品，特地挑了一个阳光灿烂的上午，在中央公园的环境之中，这个作品看起来更有韵味。
展览相关资料：（以下文字来源：大都会博物馆网站 www.metmuseum.org）
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
April 27, 2010–October 31, 2010 (weather permitting)
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden
Invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific
installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, the twin
brothers Mike and Doug Starn (born in New Jersey in 1961) present their
new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop.
The monumental bamboo structure, ultimately measuring 100 feet long, 50
feet wide, and 50 feet high, takes the form of a cresting wave that
bridges realms of sculpture, architecture, and performance. Visitors
witness the continuing creation and evolving incarnations of Big Bambú
as it is constructed throughout the spring, summer, and fall by the
artists and a team of rock climbers. Set against Central Park and its
urban backdrop, Big Bambú suggests the complexity and energy
of an ever-changing living organism. It is the thirteenth-consecutive
single-artist installation on the Roof Garden.
Go to Flickr for behind-the-scenes photos and installation views.
Read the Guided-Tour Guidelines.
Curator Anne Strauss talks to Doug and Mike Starn about the exhibition.
Download the audio file.
(7.97 MB)
Visit the online Met Store for a related exhibition poster.
Above: Installation in progress, March 2010. Photo by Doug and Mike Starn. © 2010 Mike and Doug Starn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
More about the Exhibition
Big Bambú
is a growing and changing sculpture―a vast network of 5,000
interlocking 30- and 40-foot-long fresh-cut bamboo poles, lashed
together with 50 miles of nylon rope. It will continue to be
constructed throughout the duration of the exhibition. The first phase
of the structure―measuring about 100 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 30
feet high―was completed by opening day, April 27. The artists and rock
climbers are continuing to build up the eastern portion of the
sculpture to an elevation of 50 feet. By summer, the western portion of
the sculpture will be about 40 feet high. An internal footpath artery
system grows along with the structure, facilitating its progress. The
evolving state of the work is being documented by the artists in
photographs and videos.
Visiting the Exhibition
Visitors are able to experience Big Bambú
from the Roof Garden level, open to everyone during regular Museum
hours, weather permitting, and to walk among a forest of bamboo poles
that serves as the base of the sculpture. Alternatively, visitors are
able to explore the artwork on brief tours led by Museum-trained
guides. On the guided tours, held during regular Museum hours, weather
permitting, small groups of visitors are able to walk along the
elevated interior network of pathways roughly 20 to 40 feet above the
Roof Garden. Tickets are required for the guided tours, and specific
guidelines apply to those interested in participating. Please read them for details and requirements.
Tickets for guided tours may only be obtained in person and are available on a first-come, first-served basis with Museum admission at the Big Bambú Registration Desk, in the Uris Center for Education, located at the 81st Street ground-level entrance. Tickets are available twice a day on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Sundays, and Holiday Mondays, when the Museum is open to the public, and three times a day on Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets for morning tours are released at 9:30 a.m. Tickets for afternoon tours are released at noon. On Fridays and Saturdays, tickets for evening tours are released at 3:30 p.m. There is a limit of one ticket per person, and tickets are nontransferable. All tour participants (other than children without identification) are required to present photo identification to obtain a ticket.
About the Artists
Born in New Jersey in 1961, the identical twins Doug and Mike Starn
work collaboratively and defy categorization, combining traditionally
separate disciplines such as sculpture, photography, painting, video,
and installation. In spring 2009, the Arts for Transit program of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York City unveiled See it split, see it change,
the Starns' first public commission. The work, which is installed
permanently at the South Ferry subway station, won the Brendan Gill
Prize. Their work has been exhibited internationally and is included in
public and private collections worldwide. Their solo exhibitions
include Gravity of Light (2004, 2008), Absorption + Transmission (2005, 2006), Behind Your Eye (2004), Sphere of Influence (1994), Mike and Doug Starn: Selected Works 1985-87 (1988), and The Christ Series (1988). The artists live and work in the New York area.
Exhibition Organization and Credits
The exhibition is organized by Anne L. Strauss, Associate Curator of
the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at
the Metropolitan Museum.
The exhibition is made possible by 
Additional support is provided by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky.
The exhibition is also made possible in part by the Jane and Robert Carroll Fund.
Rope is provided by Mammut Sports Group, Inc.
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发表评论 评论 (9 个评论)
- 回复 rubin
- 我非常珍惜过去在中国的日子和我所有的朋友，不过现在我是尽量珍惜我的当下。不会给自己的大脑半点空间去思念什么，等到有一天我老了，走不动了，也许我会思念我的中国故乡，以及我曾经体验的丰富多彩的纽约。
- 回复 yiyi10
To: rubin 你曾经说:
能上去，上去真的太好了，有机会一定去一次，谢谢你，陈记者...
游客可以走进作品中间，不过一定要预约，还有诸如需要穿胶底鞋，照相机一定要有绑带，等等要求。不过登高望远，看到中央公园和四周的林海楼海，心旷神怡。
- 回复 rubin
To: yiyi10 你曾经说:
游客可以走进作品中间，不过一定要预约，还有诸如需要穿胶底鞋，照相机一定要有绑带，等等要求。不过登高望远，看到中央公园和四周的林海楼海，心旷神怡。
这上面还能走人，好玩...
