Closing Bell: Public Art in Dumbo and DoBro

Ben Snead’s fish heads sculpture at the corner of Prospect Place and Washington Street in Dumbo was packed up last month, but a new piece of public art has arrived to replace it. Two Trees, which manages the corner, has brought in a tall, white triangular sculpture created by British artist Nick Hornby. The 12-foot-tall sculpture, called “Bird God Drone,” is a robotically carved outline of Michelangelo’s “David.” Also part of the installation is this aerial video of the piece, which is supposed to reveal that David’s silhouette is lying horizontally on the ground. We’ve included a picture after the jump!

And a much more colorful installation has appeared at MetroTech Commons in Downtown Brooklyn. Public Art Fund has installed Katharine Gross’s “Just the Two of Us” (pictured), “a mass of jutting, brightly painted forms that transform the wooded space in the middle of MetroTech Commons into an undulating sculptural landscape,” according to the description. The exhibition also includes a smaller work at the entrance to the Jay Street-MetroTech subway, on the corner of Myrtle and Jay Streets, that “hints at the much larger installation only steps away.”