Rockefeller Center
45 Rockefeller Plz
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Chris Burden, What My Dad Gave Me, Courtesy Public Art Fund
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June 11, 2008 – July 19, 2008
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In 1912, as the Woolworth Building was under construction in New York City, Olympic gold medalist A.C. Gilbert invented the Erector Set, a box of one-inch-wide stainless-steel girders and small screws… for… kids? Nearly a century later, contemporary artist Chris Burden plays with the toys on a scale tantamount to the skyscrapers that inspired them, in what he calls a "beautiful metamorphosis." What My Dad Gave Me stands 65-feet tall, contains roughly a million Erector Set pieces, weighs approximately seven tons, and should not be passed over for the Public Art Fund's other monumental feats of engineering out in the East River.
