{"id":2462,"date":"2010-06-18T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T22:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/06\/public-pianos-in-nyc\/"},"modified":"2010-06-21T15:53:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T22:53:32","slug":"public-pianos-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/18\/public-pianos-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Pianos in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/The%20nonprofit%20arts%20group%20behind%20the%20project,%20Sing%20for%20Hope,%20is%20betting%20that%20transforming%20the%20pianos%20into%20something%20to%20see%20as%20well%20as%20something%20to%20hear%20will%20make%20the%20installation%20as%20captivating%20as%20art%20installations%20like%20%E2%80%9Cthe%20Gates,%E2%80%9D%20the%20orange%20gates%20and%20matching%20draperies%20that%20stretched%20across%20Central%20Park%20in%202005,%20or%20the%20four-waterfall%20exhibit%20on%20the%20East%20River%20in%202008.%20Painting%20the%20pianos%20also%20brought%20back%20memories%20of%20the%20fiberglass%20cows%20that%20took%20up%20residence%20here%20in%20the%20summer%20of%202000.\" target=\"_blank\">from the NY Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Pianos as Public Art, and the Public\u2019s Playthings<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/james-barron\/\" class=\"url fn\" title=\"See all posts by JAMES BARRON\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase\" target=\"_blank\">JAMES BARRON<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"w480\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/06\/15\/nyregion\/15piano-cityroom\/15piano-cityroom-blogSpan.jpg\" alt=\"Corinna Berthould, a volunteer with the \u201cPlay Me, I\u2019m Yours\u201d street-piano project, at a piano-painting party on Monday. \" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"w480\"><span class=\"credit\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.223em; text-align: right; color: #909090; margin-bottom: 3px\"><em>Photographs by Michelle V. Agins\/The New York Times<\/em><\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"w480\">Jerome Ware Jr. pressed his palm into a tray of orange paint. Then he found exactly the right spot for a handprint on the top of an upright piano he had just painted gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrasts, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome, 16, was painting one of 60 pianos that will hit the city\u2019s streets next Monday as part of a public art project called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/singforhope.org\/streetpianos\/\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">Play Me, I\u2019m Yours<\/a>\u201d (see map below). On corners, in parks, the pianos will be an eyeful as well as an earful, with attention-getting cases and living-color keys \u2014 green or blue, or all black instead of the usual allotment of 52 white and 36 black.<\/p>\n<p>So before the whole city finds out who needs to brush up on the \u201cMinuet in G,\u201d volunteers have been putting brushes to the pianos.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit arts group behind the project,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/singforhope.org\/\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">Sing for Hope<\/a>, is betting that transforming the pianos into something to see as well as something to hear will make the installation as captivating as art installations like \u201cthe Gates,\u201d the orange gates and matching draperies that stretched across Central Park in 2005, or the four-waterfall exhibit on the East River in 2008. Painting the pianos also brought back memories of the fiberglass cows that took up residence here in the summer of 2000.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/15\/pianos-as-public-art-and-the-publics-playthings\/?nl=nyregion&amp;emc=ura4\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at the NY Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the NY Times Pianos as Public Art, and the Public\u2019s Playthings By\u00a0JAMES BARRON Photographs by Michelle V. Agins\/The New York Times\u00a0 Jerome Ware Jr. pressed his palm into a tray of orange paint. Then he found exactly the right spot for a handprint on the top of an upright piano he had just painted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}