Crusading preservationist Theodore Grunewald makes the NY Times with his case against further altering the interior of 510 Fifth, aka the Manufacturers Trust Building. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/n...
A clothing retailer moving into a modernist building on Fifth Avenue is seeking to make changes, including relocating an art installation. A preservationist has raised concerns.
"But the eyes remain the great triggers of dread. This beast raises its hindleg to relieve itself. You should have been warier! It raises its hindleg and discloses, at the center of a tuft of red fur, a mean green eye, a treacherous eye which no longer believes in anything" Michaux 🖼️ Grünewald
Mary with the Child and Young St. John https://www.wikiart.org/en/matthias-grunewald/mary-with-the-child-and-young-st-john-1515
The Annunciation (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/matthias-grunewald/the-annunciation-detail-1515-0
Heller Altarpiece (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/matthias-grunewald/heller-altarpiece-detail-1511-0
