Ape & Cat (At the Dance) | Jim Dine
Installed in Wagner Park in 1993, Ape and Cat (At the Dance) is the whimsical handiwork of pop artist Jim Dine, a man known for his artistic obsession with Pinocchio. (We kid you not -- Dine has sculpted, drawn and painted the puppet-boy many times in his career, most recently unveiling a 27-foot-tall Pinocchio bronze in Sweden.)
There's no wooden boy with a flagpole nose to be found in this large-scale broze sculpture, however -- just a well-dressed ape and a cat in perfect harmony, dancing cheek to cheek. Just the way nature intended.
By Tom
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- Location Wagner Park New York NY
If the artist consented to be photographed in the late evening, standing by his sculpture -
the photo caption might read: “Dine and Dance under the stars..”