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There was a time when swimming pools were only found on the ground. Nowadays you can find them high overhead or even standing on edge.
What appears to be a creamy, dreamy fiberglass pool balanced precariously on its coping amidst the Rockefeller Center on Manhattan is in fact a sculpture by artists Elmgreen and Dragset from Berlin.
The 30-foot-high pool is actually strongly supported from behind to weather the stiff breezes likely to blow through the Big Apple in spring.
The piece was commissioned by New York's Public Art Fund. Dubbed 'Van Gogh's Ear' for reasons that could be anyone's guess (send us yours!), the NYPAF gives us this clue, saying the piece was "Conceived specifically for this site, where fashion, commerce, tourism, business, and art collide, the work playfully contradicts our expectations of both this familiar object and iconic site."
OK, that makes it easy.
