In the photo above artist Hanna Liden’s bagel sculpture is being installed, where Christopher Street meets the Hudson. Today I walked past another stack of Ms. Liden’s bagels at Christopher and Sixth Avenue. These are the most wonderful public art projects. I’m not sure why, but a huge cupcake or even a candy bar would seem more obviously fake and less enticing. These bagels look appropriately New York-size. Ms. Liden said that she toasted the bagels to make them appear, “A little damaged, a little grimy – like the city.”
July 21, 2015
