Public art works in New York City

Suzanne trapped in an untitled sculpture

Sunday we were threatened with rain, which never materialized. We started the day visiting Rockefeller Center to look at the art exhibit –the Frieze Sculptures. It consisted of a variety of sculptures in front of the Comcast Building (originally known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza).  They were all pretty modern and untitled. We were more interested in going inside the building to see about the Diego Rivera mural, which has long since been destroyed and replaced by murals by Jose Maria Sert in shades of brown!

Then it was on to mass at the iconic St. Patrick Cathedral and over to Times Square to buy tickets for a play. We saw “The Ferryman,” an award winning play which took place in 1981. It was about an Irish family living through the time of “the troubles” in Ireland.

On Monday the Shaffers went off on a seven hour bus trip to visit four of the boroughs. Don and I took a bus up Broadway, getting off at stops to look at the Birds on Broadway exhibit. It seems that every year the city picks an artist to do a series of sculptures and sets them up on the Broadway Malls – the green space down the center of Broadway. We had seen the first one on Saturday by Lincoln Center. Today we saw the ones on 79^th, 86^th, 96^th, 105^th, and 117^th.

Don and the bittern sculpture

By that time we were tired of getting on and off the bus, so we decided to give it up! We came home via a lovely bus ride on the #5 bus. It goes on Riverside Drive which runs along the park by the Hudson River.

In the evening we took our husbands out for a belated Father’s Day dinner at the Toscana 49 restaurant which is just around the corner from the hotel.