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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Home Is Where the Art Is


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This week New York City unveiled a major "arts" project, $15 million buckeroonies for four towers made of scaffolding that serve as waterfalls. I'm a proponent of environmetal art, like Cristo and Jeanne-Claude's Gates and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, or James Turrell's epic Roden Crater in the northern Arizona desert, but this ill-conceived silliness, by icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, looks like, well, waterfalls made of scaffolding. The overblown hyperbole award goes to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who gushed that the towers evoke the "awe that led the European explorers to compare the New York skyline to the Garden of Eden." Huh?

posted by John M Crowther @ 7:17 AM 

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