One of the stand-out attributes of the first building at the American Visual Arts Museum (There are three buildings) is a dramatic open-riser marble half-circular staircase (how's that for a description?) that I will call the Icarus Staircase. In two sections, it takes guests from the first to third floors in style. Concave marble lined walls provide an elegant place for works of art to accompany the climber. A larger than life bronze Icarus with wings of inlaid mirrors and colored glass forever slowly descends between the floors, while natural life flows down for a dome of skylights. It is truly a work of art in its various components all on its own.
Looking up from the first floor.
And back down from the second!
Icarus wrapped in his wounded wings plummets toward earth.
The art between the second and third floors.
The view back down from the top!
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