{"id":449,"date":"2009-02-23T17:11:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T17:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/02\/buddha-of-the-week-2.html"},"modified":"2009-02-23T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T17:11:28","slug":"buddha-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/02\/buddha-of-the-week-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddha of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s image comes to us from Mark Rifkin.<br \/>\n&#8220;Takashi Murakami\u2019s \u201cOval Buddha\u201d presided over the 590 Atrium (at Madison and 56th Sts.) in conjunction with last year\u2019s \u201c\u00a9 Murakami\u201d exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. The other side of his head features a none-too-happy face.&#8221;<br \/>\nPhoto \u00a9 April 2008 by Mark Rifkin \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/twi-ny.com\">www.twi-ny.com<\/a><figure id=\"attachment_3173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3173\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twi-ny\/sets\/72157604380740316\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onecity.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/ovalbuddhajpg.jpg\" alt=\"Murakami&#039;s Buddha at 500 madison ave\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3173\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murakami's Buddha at 590 madison ave<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nnote: Buddha of the Week will be appearing on Saturday\/Sundays from now on. My regularly scheduled programming will resume at 4pm Mondays next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s image comes to us from Mark Rifkin. &#8220;Takashi Murakami\u2019s \u201cOval Buddha\u201d presided over the 590 Atrium (at Madison and 56th Sts.) in conjunction with last year\u2019s \u201c\u00a9 Murakami\u201d exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. The other side of his head features a none-too-happy face.&#8221; Photo \u00a9 April 2008 by Mark Rifkin \/ www.twi-ny.com note:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Buddha of the Week - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/02\/buddha-of-the-week-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buddha of the Week - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week&#8217;s image comes to us from Mark Rifkin. &#8220;Takashi Murakami\u2019s \u201cOval Buddha\u201d presided over the 590 Atrium (at Madison and 56th Sts.) in conjunction with last year\u2019s \u201c\u00a9 Murakami\u201d exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. 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