{"id":695,"date":"2011-07-27T06:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T13:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/homage-to-new-york\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:13:09","slug":"homage-to-new-york-2","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/homage-to-new-york-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage to New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 290px; height: 400px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/homage-to-new-york-1960.jpgLarge.jpg\" alt=\"Jean-Tinguely-Homage-to-New-York-1960.jp\" \/>In 1960, German-born art historian Peter Selz, then chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, invited Swiss artist Jean Tinguely to construct Homage to New York, a mechanical work of art that self-destructed in the museum&#8217;s sculpture garden on March 17, 1960.\u00a0 Swedish engineer Billy Kl\u00fcver, a laser researcher at Bell Labs in nearby Murray Hill, New Jersey, collaborated with Tinguely on the technical aspects of the work, and American artist Robert Rauschenberg contributed an artistic component to it &#8211; a money-throwing machine &#8211; as well.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-695-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/vimeo\" src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/8537769?loop=0&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/8537769?loop=0\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/8537769?loop=0<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Image source: https:\/\/uploads8.wikiart.org\/images\/jean-tinguely\/homage-to-new-york-1960.jpg!Large.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5668,"template":"","artist":[681],"streams":[5554,8,5556,5555],"keywords":[3932,3930,3928,2150,3931,2120,3929],"decade":[5540],"media":[5547,5546],"class_list":["post-695","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-jean-tinguely","streams-bodies","streams-charged-environments","streams-emergent-systems","streams-surrogates","keywords-autodestructive","keywords-kluver","keywords-moma","keywords-performance","keywords-rauschenburg","keywords-robot","keywords-selz","decade-1960s","media-image","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5675,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/695\/revisions\/5675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}