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Elevated Art Exhibit Provides Close-up Views of Towering Columbus Statue
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Civil engineering (New York, N.Y. 1983), 2013-04, Vol.83 (4), p.24
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New York: American Society of Civil Engineers
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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Because Christopher Columbus is considered one of the first Europeans ever to survive a hurricane and describe it in writing, it seems ironically appropriate that a recent art exhibit constructed around a statue of the explorer in the New York City borough of Manhattan weathered last year's Hurricane Sandy. However, just as the 1502 hurricane disrupted Columbus's fleet during his fourth voyage to the New World, last year's storm temporarily closed the exhibit at his statue, the centerpiece of Columbus Circle. Entitled Tatzu Nishi: Discovering Columbus, the exhibit was erected around the 13 ft tall marble statue of Columbus, which is elevated atop a roughly 75 ft tall granite column in the traffic circle at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, West 59th Street, and Central Park West. The Columbus project was presented by New York City's Public Art Fund and sponsored by Time Warner Inc, Bloomberg, the real estate company Related, and numerous other firms.