Forever Marilyn - Seward Johnson - Untapped Cities - AFineLyne
The Garment District Alliance, formerly the Fashion Center BID, invited famed sculpture artist, Seward Johnson to install eighteen colorful life-like bronze sculptures along the Broadway Pedestrian Plazas between 36th Street and 41st Street. The installation, named Seward Johnson in New York: Selections from the Retrospective features selections from three of his collections and will remain on view through September 15 as part of the Summer Arts on the Plazas program.
New Yorkers are having a lot of fun with this installation. We watched as commercial trucks unloaded in and around them, locals had their morning coffee at tables and chairs sitting next to them, and tourists couldn’t wait to have their pictures taken with them.

18. “Forever Marilyn”

“Forever Marilyn” (photo at top) from Johnson’s Icons Revisited collection recreates that famous skirt scene in the 7 Year Itch, which wasn’t actually entirely filmed in New York City–find out more here.