40-Foot-Tall "Big Bling" Outdoor Art Exhibition Arrives in Madison Square Park

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Big Bling | Big Bling by Martin Puryear will officially go on view in Madison Square Park next week, but I was there this evening. "At forty feet high, Big Bling will achieve colossal scale and elicit a range of readings, stimulating diverse and profound interpretations of its meaning. The largest temporary outdoor sculpture Puryear has created, Big Bling is part animal form, part abstract sculpture, and part intellectual meditation. The artist’s signature organic vocabulary appears in a graceful, sinewy outline and an amoeboid form in the work’s center."

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