{"id":1113,"date":"2010-03-17T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2010-03-17T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:26:13","slug":"tate-modern-miroslaw-balkas-how-it-is-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/tate-modern-miroslaw-balkas-how-it-is-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate Modern: Miroslaw Balka&#8217;s &#8216;How It Is&#8217; sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polish artist Miroslaw Balka&#8217;s sculpture &#8211; entitled &#8216;How It Is&#8217; &#8211; dominates the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, standing 13 metres high by 30 metres long, and balanced on 2 metre stilts.<\/p>\n<p>We took a look yesterday and rather liked the piece. If you fancy checking it out, you&#8217;ve only got till the 5th April, 2010.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/tate-modern-miroslaw-balka-01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tate Modern, Miroslaw Balka's 'How It Is' sculpture, Turbine Hall, London, March 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/tate-modern-miroslaw-balka-05.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tate Modern, Miroslaw Balka's 'How It Is' sculpture, Turbine Hall, London, March 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/tate-modern-london-01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tate Modern, Miroslaw Balka's 'How It Is' sculpture, Turbine Hall, London, March 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a great Andy Warhol room at the Tate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/tate-modern-london-03.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tate Modern, Miroslaw Balka's 'How It Is' sculpture, Turbine Hall, London, March 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/tate-modern-miroslaw-balka.html\" target=\"_blank\">More photos here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish artist Miroslaw Balka&#8217;s sculpture &#8211; entitled &#8216;How It Is&#8217; &#8211; dominates the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, standing 13 metres high by 30 metres long, and balanced on &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194],"tags":[34,202],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","tag-art","tag-tate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tate-modern-miroslaw-balka-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-hX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}