{"id":8113,"date":"2019-05-15T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T12:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8113"},"modified":"2019-05-15T08:54:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T12:54:02","slug":"robert-longo-at-metro-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/15\/robert-longo-at-metro-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Longo at Metro Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resembling a disco ball and wrecking ball, Robert Longo\u2019s dramatic 1.5 ton sculpture \u2018Death Star\u2019 draws viewers into <a href=\"http:\/\/origin.www.metropictures.com\/exhibitions\/robert-longo20\/selected-works?view=slider#1\">Metro Pictures<\/a> in Chelsea to discover a sphere covered with 40,000 inert assault rifle bullets.\u00a0 Referring to the number of deaths by gun violence in the US in 2017, the number has more than doubled from those included in a similar piece by Longo from 1993.\u00a0 (On view through May 25<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8114\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8114\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8114\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8114\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robert_longo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robert_longo.jpg 2886w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robert_longo-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/robert_longo-500x355.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Longo, Death Star 2018, approximately 40,000 inert bullets (brass, copper, lead) welded to the frame; steel I-beams; steel chain, 254 \u00bd x 254 \u00bd x 144 inches, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resembling a disco ball and wrecking ball, Robert Longo\u2019s dramatic 1.5 ton sculpture \u2018Death Star\u2019 draws viewers into Metro Pictures in Chelsea to discover a sphere covered with 40,000 inert assault rifle bullets.\u00a0 Referring to the number of deaths by gun violence in the US in 2017, the number has more than doubled from those &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/15\/robert-longo-at-metro-pictures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robert Longo at Metro Pictures&#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":true,"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":[4379,4855,8,4818,117,8402,8405,13,8404,116,3139,8403,2852,10,16,1455],"class_list":["post-8113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-4379","tag-4855","tag-art","tag-bullets","tag-chelsea","tag-death-star","tag-deaths","tag-gallery","tag-guns","tag-metro-pictures","tag-protest","tag-rifle","tag-robert-longo","tag-sculpture","tag-tour","tag-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-26R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113","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=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}