{"id":833,"date":"2026-06-11T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:16:57","slug":"artist-miguel-horns-sculptures-will-adorn-new-avenue-of-the-arts-median","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"Artist Miguel Horn\u2019s sculptures will adorn new Avenue of the Arts median"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Broad Street Avenue of the Arts makeover project, which broke ground in January, is inching its way into completion.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=831\">Are bar tabs a funeral expense? | Morning Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The remaking of the median on South Broad Street in front of the Kimmel Center, part of the larger AveArts 2.0 project, will now include the installation of a pair of sculptures by artist Miguel Horn. The South Philly-based artist, who is behind several public sculptures in the city including Center City\u2019s <i>ContraFuerte<\/i>, sought approval for the sculptures\u2019 concept review in a Philadelphia Art Commission meeting on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The new sculptures are scheduled to be installed this fall and remain in place for five years.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The larger Broad Street renovation project involves reconstructing the median into a raised planter, adding landscaping, restoring pavement, and installing pedestals and lighting for the public art. AveArts 2.0 was supposed to begin construction on the median in January and wrap up this month, but has since been delayed until the fall. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Made of bright yellow powder coated steel, Horn\u2019s sculptures will display a blurred image of moving pedestrians. The concept for the design, Horn said, came from him making Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) scans of buildings around Philadelphia. He began to notice something interesting when people walked in front of the scanner. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis section of the Reading Terminal Market at Filbert Street was flooded with pedestrians walking by, and these movements of pedestrians across this space created this tapestry of figurative elements, abstraction, and I just fell in love,\u201d Horn said in the meeting as he presented his artistic concept. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He then proceeded to go through the scans and select different movements to create the final sculpture design of walking pedestrians. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis Muybridge-like study of movement for me was the most compelling thing sculpturally I\u2019ve seen rendered on a computer screen in years,\u201d he said, referring to Edwin Muybridge, the pioneering photographer best known for creating <i>The Horse in Motion <\/i>(1878).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Horn\u2019s design did raise some concerns among attendees on Wednesday, including concerns about potential driving sight line blockages brought on by the sculptures. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=829\">In Umbria, sweet white wines still reign<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In the meeting, he assured that there was no concern for safety. His presentation to the Arts Commission claimed that the sculptures would still allow for a 215-feet sightline of incoming traffic while driving on either side of the median.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere will not be an interruption to any visual sight lines,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Design Advocacy Group (DAG) vice-chair David Brownlee, who did not attend Wednesday\u2019s meeting, considers planting trees in the median impractical.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo one has ever said to me that the problem with Broad Street is there\u2019s no shade in the middle of the street,\u201d he said. \u201cOr that\u2019s the problem with Broad Street is you get out of the street and you look up and see that tower of City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Rather than placing trees and sculptures in the middle of the road, Brownlee suggested the widening of sidewalks and installing art on each side so pedestrians can view them while walking. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Horn\u2019s concept review for the sculptures was subsequently approved by the Arts Commission, with a final review expected at a later date.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The AveArts 2.0 project aims to beautify Avenue of the Arts into a cohesive streetscape. The plan is to renovate all blocks between City Hall and Washington Ave. with a cost of $15 million per block.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI find this to be a reclamation of our public space through this figurative artwork,\u201d Horn said. \u201cI\u2019m constantly trying to find opportunities to bring the human experience to the forefront of these public spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=827\">2026 Infiniti QX60: New look, new engine, new experience?<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction on the median was scheduled to begin in January and wrap up this month, but has since been delayed until the fall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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