The Maurizio Cattelan exhibit currently housed inside the Guggenheim (you can't miss it), will be on view through January 22nd, and the museum has just offered up this neat video showing Cattelan using a one-twelfth-scale model of the building to help visualize the installation. Along with the miniature rotunda, he used maquettes of artworks to prepare for hanging the objects. Most likely he used one of these foam-core miniatures.
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Videos: Maurizio Cattelan's Guggenheim Exhibit, In Miniature And Time Lapse
Here's What Manhattan Looks Like Miniature, And In Marble
Now through October 29th you can check out a miniaturized model of Manhattan, crafted out of 2.5 tons of white marble. The 8-foot-long piece, called “Little Manhattan,” was created by artist Yutaka Sone, and is on display at the David Zwirner gallery. Manhattan has never looked so clean!
NYC Gets Miniature In Artist's Detailed Dioramas
New York native Alan Wolfson has spent years creating these insanely detailed dioramas of the city. From Peep World to a 1982 Times Square hotel room to the Canal Street subway station, he's built a miniature version of NYC's urban landscape. He notes that some scenes (specifically the Canal Street one) are not exact representations, "but rather a combination of existing and fabricated environments." (The entire thing took him 18 months to make!) You can check out more of his work right here.
Aw: Look At These Mini Guggenheims
Did you know that foam-core miniature Guggenheims are used to design upcoming exhibitions at the museum? One of the web developers there just Tweeted some photos of the models currently being used. Not so different from the original... but that color doesn't look like London Fog or Powell Buff! [via Queens Museum]
"Trainset Ghetto" Brings Old NYC Back
Peter Feigenbaum (who you may know from the Brooklyn band Dinowalrus) has created a pretty amazing miniature streetscape of outer-borough New York City circa the 1970s and '80s. Tomorrow his installation will open at the Open Source Gallery—it's called “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart.” From the gallery:
Make New York Your Own!
Ever wish you could just build your own New York City? Now you can! Sort of. Wurlington Brothers Press has created a series of Build Your Own New York postcards "which can be cut and assembled into miniature paper models of prominent New York landmarks." They note some inspiration from Geoffrey Heighway's Micromodels, circa the 1950s. Each card comes with instructions and a history of the landmark—they've included everything from the Empire State Building to Grant's Tomb, but we sort of love the subway car best. They even offer up some free models—but what buildings are missing? [via Kottke]
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