{"id":4220,"date":"2015-08-06T11:57:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T11:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2015-08-06T11:57:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T11:57:39","slug":"hanna-lidens-giant-bagel-public-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/hanna-lidens-giant-bagel-public-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanna Liden&#8217;s Giant Bagel Public Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish-born artist\u00a0Hanna Liden just unveiled <em>Everything<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 a series of works\u00a0consisting of nine giant bagel sculptures as part of a public-art project in Manhattan. Seven of the\u00a0giant bagels are on display in\u00a0West Village\u2019s Hudson River Park through October 20, while two will occupy a spot on lower Sixth Avenue until August 24.<\/p>\n<p>Leiden, a photographer-turned-artist, previously exhibited <em>I Hope These Ruin A Perfectly Bad Day<\/em> in New York in 2014, a series of photographs featuring disparate everyday objects repurposed as flower holders.<\/p>\n<p>She turned to a very quintessential New York item \u2014 the bagel \u2014 for this new project.<\/p>\n<p>In explaining the new exhibit, Liden said, &#8220;\u201cTacos are not New York. Pizza slices are, but the bagel has a better shape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sculptures, made from industrial-foam\u00a0and coming in at\u00a0four feet in width,\u00a0are being presented by the <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publicartfund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Production Fund<\/a>, a New York non-profit \u201cdedicated to commissioning and producing ambitious public art projects, reaching new audiences and expanding awareness through contemporary art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Liden&#8217;s own words,\u00a0\u201cthe bagel \u2014 a circle with no beginning and no end \u2014 is evocative of the eternal cycle of city life. The black spray paint is a romantic tribute to the darkness and grime, which are essential and beautiful characteristics of our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hanna-linden-everything-bagel-sculptures-new-york-designboom-01.jpg?resize=818%2C576\" alt=\"hanna-linden-everything-bagel-sculptures-new-york-designboom-01\" width=\"818\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hanna-linden-everything-bagel-sculptures-new-york-designboom-07.jpg?resize=818%2C616\" alt=\"hanna-linden-everything-bagel-sculptures-new-york-designboom-07\" width=\"818\" height=\"616\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish-born artist\u00a0Hanna Liden just unveiled Everything\u00a0\u2014 a series of works\u00a0consisting of nine giant bagel sculptures as part of a public-art project in Manhattan. Seven of the\u00a0giant bagels are on display in\u00a0West Village\u2019s Hudson River Park through October 20, while two will occupy a spot on lower Sixth Avenue until August 24. Leiden, a photographer-turned-artist, previously exhibited I Hope These Ruin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[30],"tags":[307,70,308],"class_list":["post-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-hanna-liden","tag-new-york-city","tag-public-art"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoQFa-164","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}