MANHATTAN – Here’s an out-my-window in nice light. New York continues to enthrall me.
Day of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back 15 years to Hello Kitty. Lever House was owned at the time by Aby Rosen’s RFR Holding, which had acquired the Bunshaft landmark alongside the Seagram Building. Rosen inaugurated the Lever House Art Collection in 2004, curated by Richard Marshall, cycling works by Koons, E.V. Day, and others through the lobby and Noguchi plaza. Tom Sachs’s Bronze Collection opened in 2008. Sachs built Hello Kitty, My Melody, and Miffy from foamcore and glue, cast them in bronze, and painted them white to mimic the original foamcore — merchandising icons monumentalized in fine-art material, then sited inside a 1952 modernist masterpiece. Day 555 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
