20 oct 2010

Turning The Public Into Performers With 'Street Pianos' "Contributor Shirley Romano"

June 23, 2010 Summer brings out fun, sun and public art projects, but here's a project that's truly participatory. For the next two weeks, an art installation called "Play Me I'm Yours" features 60 pianos in the streets of New York. An assortment of upright pianos, painted by artists in odd colors, sit in parks, on sidewalks and on street corners for anyone to play.
Sometimes, the pianos are shyly tinkered with, but then there are people who completely lose themselves. Nina Pike, a 20-year-old visitor from Virginia, recently sat down in the middle of Times Square and improvised a piece
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