"NYC Manhole Covers" by Lawrence Weiner (2000)

Union Square, NYC

by navema
www.navemastudios.com

Lawrence Weiner's NYC Manhole covers read: "in direct line with another and the next", referring to the grid of New York City's Streets, and can be found in 19 locations below Union Square.

Artist's Statement: "Given the light, urban people do not in fact have any means of determining where they are from. Looking to the stars the material reality of the work itself allows each manhole cover to offer a certitude at that moment within the sphere when determining where you are is of some use in understanding the realtionship of human beings to objects in relation to human beings."

Lawrence Weiner is an internationally renowned artist who has been creating significant artworks for the last 40 years. His public projects, often texts appearing as part of the urban landscape, have defied many of the preconceptions of "public art" and monumentality. Weiner's well-known text works exist as gallery artworks as well as in film, video, CDs and many artist's books. Major museum exhibitions of Weiner's work since the 1960s have been presented at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and most recently at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.

Lawrence Weiner's NYC Manhole covers are located in the following 19 spots:

West Village Vicinity
1. W. 12th Street & Hudson Street (SW corner)
2. Bleecker Street & Bank Street (SW corner)
3. In front of 124 Bank Street (Between Washington & Greenwich Streets)
4. Hudson Street (near the park, between W. 11th & Bank Streets)
5. W. 11th Street & Hudson Street (NE corner)
6. Bleecker Street (near the park, between W. 11th & Bank Streets)
7. W. 4th Street (eastside, between W. 11th & Bank Streets)

Union Square Vicinity
8. Union Square Farmers' Market (Broadway side)
9. Union Square Farmers' Market (Park Avenue South side)
10. Union Square Park (East edge of Park at 15th St entrance to the subway)
11. Union Square Park (in Park enter on East 15th St)
12. Union Square Park (14th Street East near Broadway)

Washington Square Vicinity
13. Washington Square Park (west sidewalk, Washington Place W. & MacDougal Street)
14. Washington Square Park (west sidewalk, W. 4th & MacDougal Streets)
15. Washington Square Park (in Center of park, near the fountain)
16. Washington Square Park (Entrance at W.4th & Thompson Streets)

Astor Place Vicinity
17. Astor Place, traffic triangle at the Uptown 6 subway stop (8th St. & 4th Ave)

St. Mark's in the Bowery Vicinity
18. In the Abe Lebeworth Park (2nd Avenue & 10th Street )

Tompkins Square Park Vicinity
19. Avenue A & 7th Street (NE corner)

www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/00/weiner_f00.htmlv

Taken in: United States / New York / New York / Union Square (show map)

Taken on: September 12, 2009

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