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[Post New]Oct 09 2006 00:13
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lori


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Socrates Sculpture Park
Posted by Lori in New York; Art on 09/Oct/2006

Until 1986, the site of the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens, was an illegal riverside landfill, abandoned and ugly. A group of local artists got together and decided to turn the area into a park and outdoor museum...

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[Post New]Oct 09 2006 15:06
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Cool photos, Lori. What's the gorilla "sculpture" made of (I know you touched it)? Looks a bit like... a real gorilla.

You should go to Noguchi nearby. The garden is almost as good as Socrates... In a different way.

http://www.noguchi.org/
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lori


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it seems to be a stuffed gorilla suit. fur and everything.
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