THE NEW YORK TIMES
By A.C. Lee
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| Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral |
NEW YORK---The Miser still remembers turning the corner at Broadway and 112th Street, near Columbia, years ago and being stunned by his first glimpse of the
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Currently on view is
“Phoenix,” a set of two gigantic winged beasts hanging suspended in what looks like midflight. The Chinese sculptor and Conceptual artist
Xu Bing assembled each bird from found objects, mostly refuse, an appropriate echo of this mythical creature’s recurring resurrections. Also on view, in the Chapel of Saint Boniface behind the altar, is
“Across the Centuries, Across the Continents,” an exhibition of quilts memorializing the victims of twin tragedies: the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911, and the fires at the Tazreen and Rana Plaza factories in Bangladesh in 2012 and 2013. [
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(Friday through Sunday, from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, at 112th Street, Morningside Heights; 212-316-7540, stjohndivine.org.)
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| Robin Berson, Triangle Fire Memorial Quilt |
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| Robin Berson, For the Lost Garment Workers of Bangladesh (detail) |