{"id":8903,"date":"2020-09-09T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8903"},"modified":"2025-02-09T19:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T00:40:19","slug":"lawrence-weiner-in-front-of-the-whitney-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/09\/lawrence-weiner-in-front-of-the-whitney-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Weiner in front of the Whitney Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Whitney\u2019s social distancing markers are more artful than most\u2026or so it appears in front of the museum where conceptual artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mariangoodman.com\/artists\">Lawrence Weiner<\/a>\u2019s manhole cover aligns with the line to get in the museum.\u00a0 Commissioned in 2000 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicartfund.org\/exhibitions\/view\/nyc-manhole-covers\/\">Public Art Fund<\/a>, the cover is one of many that were installed around Union Square, Washington Square Park and other downtown locations through early 2011.\u00a0 Reading \u2018In direct line with another and the next,\u2019 the text relates to the city grid and its residents moving though urban spaces together, a theme never more relevant than now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/09\/lawrence-weiner-in-front-of-the-whitney-museum\/laurence_weiner\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8904\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8904\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/laurence_weiner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/laurence_weiner.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/laurence_weiner-141x150.jpg 141w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/laurence_weiner-375x400.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whitney\u2019s social distancing markers are more artful than most\u2026or so it appears in front of the museum where conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner\u2019s manhole cover aligns with the line to get in the museum.\u00a0 Commissioned in 2000 by the Public Art Fund, the cover is one of many that were installed around Union Square, Washington &hellip; 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