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Red, Yellow, and Blue Ropes Galore!

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When Rachel from Life Unsweetened asked earlier this week if any of her readers ever play tourist in their own city my answer emphatically, YES! I live in New York City and I love being a tourist, even for, as Thursday evening turned out, 20 minutes on my way to another event.  When I saw Naomi of the tremendously popular Love Taza visit the new art installation in Madison Square Park with her littles I knew I had to head over and see it for myself!

It is exactly one mile from my front door to the SE corner of Madison Square Park and as any New Yorker knows, you are welcomed to the quaint area by Shake Shake.  I reluctantly sped past the tasty eatery to see Madison Square Park Conservancy’s new installation for Spring and Summer 2013 by New York-based artist Orly Genger. The monumental installation is entitled Red, Yellow and Blue and features over 1.4 million feet of painted hand-knotted nautical rope. Take a look!

To give these massive structures perspective she used enough rope that he total length equates to nearly 20 times the length of Manhattan,  over 3,000 gallons of paint, and the installation weighs over 100,000 pounds!

The rope exhibit really was spectacular and if you have time to to go see Red, Yellow, and Blue in Madison Square Park I would definitely recommend it and it will be in NYC until it heads to Boston on  September 8th!

P.S.  I am really excited to announce that next week is going to be the second Past Adventures takeover featuring six of my favorite trips, from the map can you guess where they are?

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  2. Alyssa says

    I love playing tourist in NYC too, Kelly! I was actually in Madison Square Park on Friday for a quick Shake Shack stop before The Great Gatsby, and I saw the installation. I wasn’t expecting it to be so huge!

  6. Rachel says

    Thanks for the shout-out! I feel like there is SO much to do in NYC that you can always be a tourist there no matter how long you’ve lived there!

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  11. Amy Shaughnessy says

    Wow, this is so cool! I have to admit that I don’t play tourist in my own city. I feel like I have seen everything. I like going to bigger cities like Houston and seeing different things. Dallas and Houston are two of my favorite places to go so each time we go, we try something new.

    Amy

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