NYC Rhino Sculpture: It’s Only Temporary
The Last Three, the seven-ton, 17-foot-high “tallest bronze rhino sculpture in the world,†made by the Australian “extraordinary public artists†Gillie and Marc — who, according to their website, “first met on a film shoot in Hong Kong; then 7 days later, ran away to Nepal and married on the foothills of Mt. Everest and whose unparalleled love is the cornerstone of what they are and what they create†— is now installed a few feet from Alamo, the spinning black cube by Bernard Rosenthal at Astor Place and Lafayette Street. Jerry Saltz comments: ‘It is an ugly, bathos-filled folly that proves my adage that 95 percent of all public sculpture is crap. Thank goodness this crap is only temporary.’ Okay!
