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James Yamada's Our Starry Night
April 28 – October 28, 2008
At Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park Fifth Avenue and 60th Street, New York
James Yamada's Our Starry Night acts as an interactive passageway to Central Park: as visitors to the park walk through the sculpture at all hours of the day and night, it will illuminate in response to each person individually. This reaction is triggered by a metal detector hidden inside the structure's casing that in turn activates the lights that perforate the exterior of the sculpture. Our Starry Night is activated by the public, reinforcing the notion that art — and particularly public art — is dependent on the people around it.
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