Subversive sculptor Ugo Rondinone is best known in New York for the blasphemous message he scrawled across the New Museum when it opened three years ago. “HELL, YES!” the neon rainbow screamed over the Bowery. Now, Mr. Rondinone is taking a more reverent place on another New York thoroughfare. He has just bought a defunct church on Fifth Avenue in Harlem. Read More
Hell no!
The New Museum has now replaced its infamous lapel pin with a boutonniere, as Isa Genzken’s Rose II took the place of Ugo Rondinone’s love-it-or-hate-it “Hell Yes” sculpture on the Bowery museum’s facade yesterday.
Many people were unaware that Rondinone’s work was merely temporary, and the same goes for Genzken’s, which Read More
Starting next month, New Museum visitors will no longer be greeted by a resounding “Hell Yes!” when approaching 235 Bowery. Ugo Rondinone’s enthusiastic rainbow sculpture, which has been an emblem of the LES institution since the building opened in 2007, will soon be replaced by Isa Genzken’s Rose II.
The museum will begin preparations for Read More
