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Met’s roof displays American artist Alex Da Corte’s spectacular sculpture ‘As Long as the Sun Lasts’
5 hours ago Alex Da Corte s As Long as the Sun Lasts kinetic sculpture is seen at The Met s 2021 Roof Garden Commission.
Niloufar Saleem, Gulf Today
American artist Alex Da Corte was assigned to do a site-specific art installation to be displayed at the exhibition at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.
The installation of a big blue bird sitting on the crescent of a moon is an absolute crowd pleaser.
As Long as the Sun Lasts is a 26-foot-tall (8-metre) sculpture featuring the Sesame Street character Big Bird.
Installation view, The Roof Garden Commission, Alex Da Corte “As Long as the Sun Lasts,” 2021. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Anna Marie Kellen
A 26-foot-tall moving sculpture featuring the
Sesame Street character Big Bird has been installed atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the museum’s annual Roof Garden Commission series. Created by Philadelphia-based artist Alex Da Corte,
As Long as the Sun Lasts exhibition includes a blue-feathered Big Bird sitting on a floating crescent moon and holding a ladder, gazing out at Central Park and the massive towers that dot the skyline. The exhibition will open at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden on April 16 and be on view through October 31.
WORCESTER Syrian-Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad s immersive installation Memory Gates will be on view at The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross from March 4 through April 11.
Mourad has been at Holy Cross in February as an artist in residence in collaboration with the college’s Arts Transcending Borders program.
Using his signature style of spontaneous drawing and printmaking techniques, Mourad has been creating “Memory Gates, a work imagined as a series of doors and passageways that visitors can pass through. The work explores themes of cultural plurality and collective memory.
During Mourad’s residency, students have been invited to work alongside the artist, assisting in the execution and installation of the work as it unfolds. Meredith Fluke, director of the Cantor Art Gallery, said Our goal is for Holy Cross students to be involved directly in Kevork’s process, and to benefit from Kevork’s deeply collaborative a