What Chris Burden gave me
As I’ve mentioned here before, I love love love the work of Chris Burden. This is his latest installation at Rockefeller Center, What My Father Gave Me.
Yes, it is a model of the GE Building, rendered in over a million replicated Erector set parts.
And get this: Chris Burden’s dad was an engineer. So it all makes sense.
More photos, please.
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