{"id":5243,"date":"2016-04-26T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2016-04-19T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T10:22:19","slug":"adam-mcewan-at-petzel-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/adam-mcewan-at-petzel-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam McEwan at Petzel Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With oppressive systems as his theme, British artist Adam McEwan presents sculptures of supercomputers that move data, a rendition of airport security trays and this walk-in sculpture of the letter \u2018K.\u2019 The letter stands in for Kafka and a character in \u2018The Trial\u2019 as well as a hieroglyph for an open hand. The most convincing way to understand the mood of the piece, however, is to climb the terrifyingly steep stairs. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petzel.com\/exhibitions\/2016-03-03_adam-mcewen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Petzel Gallery<\/a> through April 30<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5244\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5244\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5244\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/adam_mcewan-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Adam McEwan, Staircase, wood, steel, 18\u2019 \u2013 10\u201d x 12\u2019 \u2013 11 5\/8\u201d x 3\u2019 \u2013 10 1\/4,\u201d 2016.\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/adam_mcewan-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/adam_mcewan-1200x1784.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam McEwan, Staircase, wood, steel, 18\u2019 \u2013 10\u201d x 12\u2019 \u2013 11 5\/8\u201d x 3\u2019 \u2013 10 1\/4,\u201d 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With oppressive systems as his theme, British artist Adam McEwan presents sculptures of supercomputers that move data, a rendition of airport security trays and this walk-in sculpture of the letter \u2018K.\u2019 The letter stands in for Kafka and a character in \u2018The Trial\u2019 as well as a hieroglyph for an open hand. The most convincing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/adam-mcewan-at-petzel-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adam McEwan at Petzel Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[5814,8,147,18,117,571,9,13,432,5815,5817,1372,12,782,10,5816,5276,16],"class_list":["post-5243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-adam-mcewan","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-tour","tag-contemporary","tag-gallery","tag-gallery-tour","tag-k","tag-kafka","tag-ladder","tag-new-york","tag-petzel-gallery","tag-sculpture","tag-staircase","tag-stairs","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1mz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5245,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}