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In Ettore Spalletti’s Carte Rosa (1998), twin panels, pale pink on both sides and eight feet tall, form an unframed square. They are not flush with the wall. Air has worked its way beneath one of the panels, ballooning its lower edge so that it is like a curtain giving way to wind from an imagined window.
Art lives in many places in New York City, not just museums and galleries. Here are five choices for some superlative lobby art in Gotham, both best and worst.