General William T. Sherman
A close-up of the bronze portrait bust of the famed Civil War general (and distant relative) turned out to be one of the best ways to photograph the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, at Bronx Community College (formerly NYU’s Heights Campus). The 630-foot long colonnade was completed in 1900; the busts were added gradually, but none since NYU decamped in the 1970s.
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Hall of Fame
So this is a photograph of a painting of sculpture (of products of the Hand of God, if you’re religious). Daniel Hauben’s magnificent twin murals decorate the stairwells of the new (2012) library at Bronx Community College (formerly NYU’s uptown campus). Hauben’s style permits considerable artistic license; his selective representations of the borough are not photographic.
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TOMIE ARAI
Back to the Garden, 2007
Faceted glass in Platform windscreen
Sunflowers
Maple and oak leaves
Glass and mosaic by Valerie Maynard at the 125th St. Station on the Lexington Avenue subway.
Una Raza, Un Mundo, Universo
lighting up the platform
Landmark building
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