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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- ALAMO_180816_08.JPG: Alamo
1906-1967
by Tony Rosenthal
An anonymous gift to the city of New York
November 1967
- Wikipedia Description: Alamo (sculpture)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alamo, also known as the Astor Place Cube or simply The Cube, is an outdoor sculpture by Bernard (Tony) Rosenthal, located on Astor Place, in the East Village, Manhattan, New York City. It takes the form of a black cube, 8 feet (2.4 m) long on each side, mounted on a corner. The cube is made of Cor-Ten steel and weighs about 1,800 pounds (820 kg). The faces of the cube are not flat but have various indentations, protrusions, and ledges. The sculpture's name, Alamo, is designated on a small plaque on of the base and was selected by the artist's wife because its scale and mass reminded her of the Alamo Mission.
History
Installed in 1967 as part of the "Sculpture and the Environment" organized by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cube was one of 25 temporary art installations that were intended to remain for a six-month period; however, local residents successfully petitioned the city to keep the Alamo. It has since become a popular meeting place in the East Village. It stands in the middle of an intersection, across the street from two entrances to the Astor Place station of the New York City Subway's 4, 6, and <6> trains, as well as the Cooper Union Foundation Building.
The Cube rotates around a hidden pole in the center. As the heavy Cube takes more than one person to rotate, it has become a way for friends and strangers to bond.
Alamo is one of five similar cubes created by Rosenthal. The identical Endover stands on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Rosenthal earned a bachelor of fine arts degree. The cube was donated by the class of 1965 and was installed in 1968. The "Endover" cube also rotates but its pivot is sunken into the ground, as opposed to the pivot of the Alamo, which is on a separate platform.
On March 10, 2005, the Parks Department removed the Cube for maintenance. The original artist and crew replaced a missing bolt, and made a few other minor repairs. A makeshift replica of polyvinyl chloride tubes named the Jello Cube in honor of Peter Cooper was placed in its stead. In November 2005, the Cube returned with a fresh coat of black paint, still able to spin. In October 2015, the sculpture was covered in a protective wooden box because of the redevelopment of Astor Place, but was eventually removed off-site again for "restoration and repainting" and to keep it "out of harm's way," according to a representative of the New York City Parks Department. On November 1st, 2016, the sculpture returned to Astor Place after a $180,000 reconstruction and rust removal.
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