I recently found out that the artist Scott Burton designed an outdoor plaza at 51st Street and Sixth Avenue. Burton’s career began in performance and Conceptual art before he eventually moved to sculptural forms, primarily furniture in public spaces. As he wrote, “Art just seems spiritually insufficient in a doomsday climate and it will take an increasingly relative position. It will place itself not in front of but around, behind, underneath (literally) the audience—in an operational capacity.”

Submitted by Ana Marie, Archivist, Archives, Library, and Research Collections