Disco Chicken.

Disco Chicken

Unveiled on October 24, 2009. "The Large Bird of Fire on an Arch" -- or "Firebird" for short -- was created in 1991 by French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. She died in 2002, years before her sculpture was purchased and moved to the front of Charlotte's Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. Perhaps that was for the best, since locals have embraced her work not as a serious piece of sculpture, but as "Disco Chicken."

Standing 18 feet tall, covered from top to bottom in 7,500 shards of shiny glass, it does indeed suggest a barnyard fowl wrapped in a coating of mirrored disco ball, with 1970s Soul Train flared pants and a strutting John Travolta pose straight out of Saturday Night Fever.

Disco Chicken

Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

Address:: 420 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC
Directions:: Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. In Center City Charlotte just blocks from I-77 and I-277 between Stonewall St. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in the newly-constructed Levine Center for the Arts (formerly the Wells Fargo Cultural Campus). Museum visitors receive discounted parking at Levine Center for the Arts garage at 550 South Tryon Street.

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