Fernando Botero's "Reclining Nude" On View Outside Christie's New York

Fernando Botero's "Reclining Nude" is covered with raindrops as it sits on display outside Christie's at 20 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan. The Colombian artist's bronze with dark brown patina sculpture is signed, numbered and stamped with foundry mark "Botero, 3/3' on the base. Its dimensions are 55 x 137 5/8 x 56 5/8 inches. It is part of the Latin American Sale, Evening Session to be held this evening at 6:30 P.M. The images were taken yesterday.

Antony Gormley's EVENT HORIZON: Nude Sculptures On Rooftops

These are some of rooftop installations of the 30 life-size iron cast sculptures by celebrated British artist, ANTONY GORMLEY in the Flatiron District of Manhattan. The sculptures were cast from his own body, and are currently on display along pathways and sidewalks of Madison Square Park, as well as the rooftops of many architectural icons in the area. The public art installation is presented by Mad. Sq. Art 2010, and runs through August 15. 

“I’m thrilled to be working with New York: people and place,” says artist Antony Gormley. “I don’t know what is going to happen, what it will look and feel like, but I want to play with the city and people’s perceptions. My intention is to get the sculptures as close to the edge of the buildings as possible. The field of the installation should have no defining boundary. The gaze is the principle dynamic of the work; the idea of looking and finding, or looking and seeking, and in the process perhaps re-assessing your own position in the world. So in encountering these peripheral things, perhaps one becomes aware of one’s status of embedment.”

Antony Gormley's Nude Sculpture at the Flatiron District's Madison Square Park

Gormley's nude sculpture with the Empire State Building in the background

The sculpture and the Flatiron Building

One of the 31 body form sculptures by artist ANTONY GORMLEY is installed at Madison Square Park in Manhattan's Flatiron District, right in front of the iconic Flatiron Building. The sculpture is part of an outdoor exhibition called Event Horizon, which runs from March 26 through August 15. The nude sculpture is made of iron, cast from Gormley's own body. The 31 life-size iron and fiberglass figures are scattered in peripheral areas of the park - rooftops and nearby sidewalks streaming with pedestrians. Antony Gormley (born 1950) is an English sculptor.