The formaldehyde fun is now done at Lever House. In it’s place are a bunch of white, life-size and larger naked men, veerrrrry anatomically correct. I was going to take a cell phone picture, but was way too wrapped up in watching the reaction of all the guys as they walked by and got a load of the peen. PRICELESS!
but I still think it’s pretty coolOk so I was right about the leather club chair, except it’s resin. Those beef shoulders are actually whole sheep. But there are two sides of beef. I don’t know if that is worse or better….
The walls are coming down! As you can see in the picture there are white skeletons all over the inside of the building, hopefully fake! The tank looking things have all the items in them. I definitely saw several beef shoulders I think and what looked like a leather club chair. WHO knows, but tomorrow is the day!
Huge air vents have been built in, prob to pump out the smell of the formaldahyde….getting closer!Baa, Baa Art Sheep at Lever House The Hirst appetizer.
By Beth Landman
Published Nov 4, 2007
Aby Rosen will unveil a Damien Hirst installation in the lobby of Lever House, the modernist landmark he owns on Park Avenue, on November 10. It’ll make an interesting amuse-bouche for diners headed to the restaurant Lever House. The project, called School: The Archaeology of Lost Desires, Comprehending Infinity and the Search for Knowledge, includes several sheep, a bull, a shark, and a dove, all floating in formaldehyde. The restaurant’s roast rack of lamb with crispy lamb shoulder is formaldehyde-free. Restaurateur John McDonald isn’t worried diners’ stomachs might be unsettled by the predinner sight of decomposing animals. “An avid carnivore can’t be stopped,” he says. Lever House regulars are used to confronting Hirst’s work on the way to their power lunches: His monumental The Virgin Mother, a sculpture of a pregnant woman peeled open, is on permanent display in the building’s courtyard. http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/40336/
I walk by here everyday and see all of the other art installations going on including…
