42nd Street Art Project Year 2
Vito Acconci, Ken Chu, Donna Dennis, Toni Dove, Dick Elliott, Dee Evetts & The Haiku Society of America, Theodor Geisel (dr. Seuss), Janet Henry, Tibor Kalman and Scott Stowell of the design firm M & Co., Ron Kuivila, The Kunst Brothers (Alison Saar & Tom Leeser), James Luna, Rima Mardoyan-Smyth, Nam June Paik, Phranc, Robert Rosenheck, J. Otto Seibold, Ned Smyth, RObert Seng, Roger Shimomura, The Triage Project, Batbara L. Tsumagari, Neil Winokur, and Ellen Zweig. Lighting Designer Pat Dignan created illuminations at many of the sites.
July through September 1994
42nd Street / Times Square between 7th and 8th Avenues
Photo © 1994 Maggie Hopp
In the summer of 1994, The 42nd Street Art Project once again transformed Manhattan's Times Square into a bustling, 24-hour-a-day gallery of contemporary art. Works by 25 artists, architects, and designers of international repute took shape in storefronts and display windows, on billboard and theater marquees, over security gates and underfoot on the sidewalks. These temporary, site-specific installations included a mysterious curtain of rain falling continuously from a theater marquee, a pop Art-influenced mock automat, a bevy of juvenile robots programmed to prey on passersby, and numerous murals, sculptures, and interactive media works.
