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That Time Sol LeWitt Removed Three NYC Landmarks

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Currently Sol LeWitt's manipulated aerial shot of New York City, called "Part of Manhattan with Central Park, Rockefeller Center and Lincoln Center removed," is over in San Francisco... but that doesn't mean we can revisit it from a distance. LeWitt didn't take this photograph himself, he contributed by cutting out three of Manhattan's most famous landmarks at the time. (According to Artlog, his “cut-outs from the 1970s began with commercially made aerial photographs of cities important to the artist, especially New York and Florence. In [this one] he excised with a mat knife three Manhattan landmarks, resulting in a jarring photographic object that prompts the viewer to reconsider the materiality of an urban landscape."

This altered photograph was unveiled in 1978. What do you think he would remove today? Give it a shot yourself (after that you can recreate his wall drawings):

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  • FreeDumb1

    ahahaahhahahahaaha

  • royinhell

    That really made me think... about how lame it is to cut a few holes in a photo you didn't take and call it art.

  • david3695

    Its no "dogs playing poker", I may not know art but I know what I ilke, right zombie et and all?

  • thesporkgirl

    this is why everybody hates you, art world.

  • zombie_cakes

    I am TOTALLY reconsidering the materiality of an urban landscape now. Heavy man, heavy...

  • yeah. no this is totally art.

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