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At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: or the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant. We are in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. An old Sugar factory, Domino Sugar Refinery, dated from 1882, a refinery that was producing sugar for nearly half of the entire Unites States, stands on the East River. The refinery stopped functioning in 2004. Nowadays it is a symbolic monument that it is about to be destroyed. Visitors entering the enormous space will be greeted by a 35.5 feet high sphinx-like figure by well-known African-American artist, Kara Walker. The sugar-coated sphinx will stand in the space for one more week. “Watching Kara Walkerʼs work come to life in the unadorned, expansive space of the Domino factory, with its molasses covered walls and natur...

Nick Cave HEARD ·NY  March 25-31, 2013 Grand Central Terminal Vanderbilt Hall @11am and 2pm every day If you are in New York these days I recommend to pay a visit to Grand Central Terminal, but you don't need to take a train, you just wonder around the Vanderbilt Hall, feel the people around you and wait for thirty horses to arrive. Beautiful and colourful life-size horses will make their appearance twice a day. Passers-by will assist to a well arranged choreography.  Unless they are informed in advance, the travellers will be surely surprised and pleased. Photograph: Caroline Voagen Nelson Those creatures are the new public art project by Chicago-based artist Nick Cave . Cave opens to people his "Soundsuits", wearable sculptures. They will be in display when they are not being worn. At a closer look, the spectator will recognise patterns from different countries from India to Morocco to Tibet. Each horse will embrace a whole racial and cultural...