ONE EVENING AFTER DINING OUT with a friend, Catherine Tremaine returned to her Lower Garden District home to find her front door standing ajar. She called the Garden District Patrol, and within minutes they came roaring down the street driving in the wrong direction and jumped out of the car with their guns drawn. Immediately after running into her home, the guards screamed, “There’s a man in here!” to which she yelled back from her car,
“No, there isn’t!!!!” There wasn’t a man in the house. There is, however, a Man in the Mirror, an art piece by Michelangelo Pistoletto that Mrs. Tremaine inherited from her parents-in-law, Emily Hall Tremaine and Burton G. Tremaine, the famed New York collectors of major modern and contemporary art, who were most active in the 1940s-1980s. Man in the Mirror confronts you as soon as you walk into Mrs. Tremaine’s home. A life-sized profile of a man in a suit with his back to the viewer is affixed to a large mirrored steel surface; it hangs on the wall directly opposite the entrance to her home. The piece played a similar trick on her motherand father-in-laws’ guests in their Upper East Side
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