Times Square boasts an odd bit of urban art that very few know about - for all its centrality. For a start, it's invisible.
Stand on the grating in the middle of the street just below 46th and, depending on your mind-set, you'll hear a low pitched moaning, a reverberating base bell, or an overworked organ. "I wanted a work that wouldn't need indoctrination," says Max Neuhaus, the artist, explaining the work's complete lack of signage. He doesn't want it to be a piece of destination art, he wants people to discover it. But, hey, you're an insider.
A "sound sculpture," he says; a "rich, harmonic sound texture resembling the after-ring of large bells;" an "impossibility within its context." Ease Elmo aside and make your own decision.
We sometimes give grid references to help you find the subjects of these posts, but if you can't find Times Square…… Clive Burrow
Stand on the grating in the middle of the street just below 46th and, depending on your mind-set, you'll hear a low pitched moaning, a reverberating base bell, or an overworked organ. "I wanted a work that wouldn't need indoctrination," says Max Neuhaus, the artist, explaining the work's complete lack of signage. He doesn't want it to be a piece of destination art, he wants people to discover it. But, hey, you're an insider.
A "sound sculpture," he says; a "rich, harmonic sound texture resembling the after-ring of large bells;" an "impossibility within its context." Ease Elmo aside and make your own decision.
We sometimes give grid references to help you find the subjects of these posts, but if you can't find Times Square…… Clive Burrow
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