Arturo Di Modica's studio
54 Crosby Street | SoHo | built 1900
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- 1973
A one-story shed stands on the lot among five- and six-story storage buildings
When the city's landmarks commission surveyed the west side of Crosby Street between Broome and Spring for the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, it listed the earlier structure at No. 54 as a one-story shed. Its neighbors there were storage buildings of five and six stories, put up in 1868 and the early 1880s, including Nos. 44-46, 50, 52 and 56-58.
- 1979
Arturo Di Modica buys the lot and builds his own studio from salvaged materials
Toward the end of the 1970s the Sicilian sculptor Arturo Di Modica bought 54 Crosby Street, then a vacant lot with a shack on it. He tore the shack down and put up a new building to his own design, without planning permission. He hauled in timber beams and 8,000 bricks he bought from a priest for $400, and later dug two underground levels in the same unapproved way, carting the rubble out at night.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1989
Di Modica makes the Charging Bull in his Crosby Street studio and leaves it on Wall Street
After the stock-market crash of October 1987, Di Modica spent two years making a 16-foot bronze bull in his Crosby Street studio, paying the $350,000 cost himself. Once it was cast, he and his helpers watched police patrols near Wall Street for several nights before moving it. They set it down before dawn on December 15, 1989, beside the city's Christmas tree. The Parks Department installed it at Bowling Green on December 20.
“He spent the next two years creating the 16 ft bronze in his Crosby Street Studio, financing the $350,000 cost himself…”
Source: Wikipedia
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