The giant nose and glasses sculpture that once overlooked the intersection of Musgrave and Estevan avenues as part of ArtsAlive continues to draw attention from its new perch in an upscale shopping district of Palm Desert, Calif.
Oak Bay couple Gerry and Beverley Smith happened upon it earlier this week and took a photo of Beverley with the sculpture on the meridian of El Paseo Drive, a mile long strip of retail stores.
B次元官网网址淲e knew it had moved obviously from [Oak Bay], but didnB次元官网网址檛 expect to see it on El Paseo Drive amongst all of the other sculptures,B次元官网网址� Gerry said.
Artist Ron Simmer sent What the Nose Knows to Palm Desert shortly after its run as one of the 2017 ArtsAlive pieces. It is now about half way through a similar two-year public exhibit, Art in Public Places, in Palm Desert.
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Simmer is hoping the Nose sells. And while there was some controversy around the artistic integrity of the Nose, Simmer reminded the Oak Bay B次元官网网址 on Wednesday that the ArtsAlive Nose was actually Nose 2, and that Nose 1 sold to a buyer in Twin Falls, Idaho.
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Before Nose 2 was erected in Palm Desert it got a new paint job and has been getting looks ever since.
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Local Palm Desert journalist Casey Dolan wrote about the Nose on his Cactus Hugs website when it popped up last year, using the critical but punny headline, B次元官网网址�.B次元官网网址� Dolan has written about many of the Palm Desert public art pieces.
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