Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, New York
Ancient Egyptian Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Christmas Frogs

Bloomingdale's
59th Street, Manhattan

The holiday windows in NYC are something to see.  With seven million of your closest friends.  This years most over-the-top display was Sak's Fifth Avenue, where the light show pretty much brought Fifth Avenue to a stop.  In one little corner of the Bloomingdale's display, though, there was this guy:

 

Public Art: 81st Street Subway, American Museum of Natural History

The 81st Street--Museum of Natural History stop on the IND Eighth Avenue Line features an installation called For Want of a Nail. It was commissioned in 2000 by the MTA, which describes it like this:

In For Want of a Nail, the artist team used a variety of materials to suggest the range and diversity at the American Museum of Natural History, directly above the subway station.  glass mosaic, glass tile, ceramic tile, granite, and bronze relief are combined in ways that highlight the ten key disciplines at the Museum.  The mosaics represent extinct and living animals, the former in grey and the latter in color.  The work assembles images from outer space to the earth's core and from the first organisms to emerge to mammals of today. The artwork was a collaboration between MTA Arts for Transit and the Museum.  For Want of a Nail, the title of an old proverb, asks the viewer to consider the way everything is connected.

There are good pictures of the installation here and here.

Playground Frogs

Bellevue South Park







Bellevue South Park is located at 28th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues in Manhattan, near Bellevue Hospital. According to the NYC Park Service: "Prior to 1811 when the city purchased the land, the park and surrounding area were Belle Vue farms, an area leased to quarantine victims of yellow fever at the end of the 18th century."

Public Art: Battery Park City

Nelson A. Rockefeller Park

Tim Otterness, The Real World

Found Frogs

Rides

Carousel, Bryant Park

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Garibaldi Square ("We Charge For Dat") Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
(We wanted to take pictures from inside the fence, but the proprietor said he'd have to charge us . . .)

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Gowanus Pathmark

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Waiting for Opening Day, Coney Island
(Let's hope it isn't the last . . .)

Parking Garage
Chinatown, Manhattan