Rupert Murdoch Plants a Wind-Powered Sculpture in Front of Fox News HQ

“It’s going to stop traffic.” Photo: Belinda Rathbone Even as Rupert Murdoch was negotiating the sale of the Hollywood empire he spent decades putting together to Disney, leaving his family with a smaller media barony under its control, he was recommitting to his place in the New York City landscape with the installation of an enormous, mysterious kinetic sculpture at his 1211 Avenue of the Americas headquarters. “Annular Eclipse” by George Rickey is a giant pair of wind-powered, stainless-steel circles, 35-feet high, and was installed earlier this month. Here’s how it got there: Last October, Murdoch and his wife, Jerry Hall, travelled upstate to Columbia County. For Murdoch, it was, in his words, “a nostalgia trip.” He once had a weekend home in Old Chatham, one of the local pleasures of which was to drive over to East Chatham to visit his friend the sculptor Rickey, who died in 2002. In those days, the house, studio, and grounds of the Rickey estate were the site of more than 100 kinetic stainless-steel sculptures, sparkling and spinning in the wind. Murdoch and his former wife, Anna, acquired several Rickey sculptures to adorn their house and garden in Los Angeles. Now it was… Read full this story

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