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Art Tours by Dianne Durante
Tour 3: Forgotten Delights Sculpture Tours in Manhattan
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Approximately 2 hours each,
1-1.5
miles
Cost:
$15 per person
Third Sunday of every month starting May 2008, 2:00 p.m.
Reservations not required
Dianne Durante's Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide includes 54 sculptures. In this series of walking tours we'll visit all of them, plus about a hundred other outdoor representational sculptures that, for one reason or another, didn't make it into the book.
The tours will progress from the southern tip of Manhattan northward. Each tour will cover 10 to 12 sculptures and involve 1-1.5 miles of walking in about 2 hours. Audience participation will be encouraged, in the form of readings from the subjects of sculptures, relevant poetry, songs, etc.
OMOM Tour 1: Sunday May 18, 2008, 2 p.m. Sculptures from City Hall south to Bowling Green, including Greeley, Hale, the pediment of the New York Stock Exchange, the seals from the old New York Coliseum, and the Continents at the U.S. Custom House. Meet at southwest corner of Chambers and Centre Sts. (near the Greeley statue).
OMOM Tour 2: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 2 p.m. Tomkins Square to Abingdon Square, including the Slocum Memorial Fountain, Cox ("the letter-carriers' friend"), Lenin, Cooper, LaGuardia, and the Abingdon Square Memorial.
OMOM Tour 3: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 2 p.m. Washington Square and Union Square, including the Washington Arch, Holley, Lafayette, Charity, the Murphy Flagpole, and Dvorak.
OMOM Tour 4: Sunday, August 17, 2008, 2 p.m. Madison Square to Herald Square, including Booth, Conkling, Farragut, Seward, the Appellate Court, and the other Greeley.
OMOM Tour 5: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 2 p.m. Bryant Park and East 42nd St., including the Garment Worker, Gleason, Stein, Juarez, New York Public Library façade, Hermes (a.k.a. The Glory of Commerce) on Grand Central Station, and Vanderbilt.
Check this site for subsequent dates and for meeting places, or add your name to the Forgotten Delights mailing list to be notified by email.
Dr. Dianne Durante is the author of Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide (New York University Press, 2007) and the creator of the website www.ForgottenDelights.com, dedicated to outdoor representational sculpture in New York. She is a freelance writer and lecturer.
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