Yoshitomo Nara's Sculptures Arrive on Park Avenue

Yoshitomo Nara, White Ghost, 2010. Photos: 16 Miles [more]

Yoshitomo Nara's show at Asia Society doesn't open until Thursday, but his outdoor installation on Park Avenue is already in place. The work, White Ghost, comprises two 12-foot-tall sculptures made of fiberglass and steel that face each other from pedestals on the median that runs along Park. One is at 70th Street, right across from Asia Society, and the other is at 67th Street, in front of the Park Avenue Armory, where Nara worked on finishing touches for the show. The sculptures are presented by Asia Society, the Art Production Fund, the sculpture committee of the Fund for Park Avenue, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Asia Society has some nice shots of the installation of the pieces.

Dan Colen and Yoshitomo Nara Prepare for Fall

24th Street and 11th Avenue at 1:00 p.m. today. Photos: 16 Miles


Some of Dan Colen's skateboard-ramps-turned-sculptures were unloaded this afternoon outside of the 24th Street branch of Gagosian. (Alex Gartenfeld had the story on that last month in the New York Observer.) Those hoping to redeem themselves after not skateboarding in Deitch Projects' skateboard bowl during the winter of 2002-03 are out of luck: there will be no skateboarding allowed in the artist's solo show, which opens on September 10. For another reminder that the new season is almost here, head up to the Park Avenue Armory, where Yoshitomo Nara and his assistants are hard at work on pieces for the artist's blockbuster retrospective at the Asia Society Museum. Nara's temporary studio is open to the public today and tomorrow from 4 to 7 p.m. His show kicks off on September 9.