Description
The Wall is a giant abstract artwork on the side of a building in SoHo, at 599 Broadway on the corner of Houston Street: 42 green aluminum bars bolted onto a periwinkle-blue wall about eight stories high. It is known as the "Gateway to SoHo".
The sculptor Forrest "Frosty" Myers made it in 1973, for a fee of 2,000 dollars, when SoHo was an artists' quarter. For him the work still carries the spirit of the artists of those days.
It was meant to hide the scars left on the building when Houston Street was widened. In 2002 the owners had it taken down, saying it let water in. After years of lawsuits, a 2007 deal let it return higher up, leaving the lower wall free for advertising.
The sculptor Forrest "Frosty" Myers made it in 1973, for a fee of 2,000 dollars, when SoHo was an artists' quarter. For him the work still carries the spirit of the artists of those days.
It was meant to hide the scars left on the building when Houston Street was widened. In 2002 the owners had it taken down, saying it let water in. After years of lawsuits, a 2007 deal let it return higher up, leaving the lower wall free for advertising.