Artist Kengo Kito
Using 2,100 hula hoops to construct this walk in sculpture that wanders into the side galleries and the main room of the new West Wing gallery of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers.

The artist is drawn to hula hoops, not only because of the appeal to children and adults but also to the significance of circles in Zen Buddhist philosophy. The circle represents many things - infinity and the circle of life. The artist also states that "the form is both perfectly whole and empty, inviting us to contemplate fullness, the void, and the nature of reality"

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Artist E. V. Day used a decommissioned costume from Bizet's opera Carmen. The piece was created in 2010 and consists of a dress and monofilament.

From the Hudson River Museum's "No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor"

From the text panel:
In this sculpture, the gold fabric of Carmen's Spanish-style dress appears tough as armor, glinting between the ruffles of the black polka dot tulle. Pulled in all directions, the dress is puffed out and spiky, resembling a blowfish. Here, it is Carmen - not Don Jose - who wields the bloody knife: she had warned him from the beginning that "love is a rebellious bird", and she remained true to her word.

That's the Hudson River in the background including the chunks of ice flowing by. It was beautiful to watch

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"The Bookstore" by artist Red Grooms was installed at the Hudson River Museum in 1979. A mix of the Morgan Library and the Mendoza Book Company, it's so much fun to walk into this immersive installation which the artist describes as a sculpto-pictorama.

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