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June 26, 2008
"New York City Waterfalls" Now Flowing
I'm excited to be heading to New York next week, not just because it's been six months since I've seen all of my friends there, but because the city is hosting their biggest public art installation since Christo and Jean Claude's "The Gates" which were documented on this site's photoblog (here, here, here, here and here).
The latest art project does not involve bright orange fabric of any kind, but is far simpler. Four large scaffolds were erected in the East River and water began flowing over them this morning. Olafur Eliasson is the man behind "New York City Waterfalls" and he intends to make people aware of the water that surrounds them. After all, four of the city's five boroughs exist on islands - a fact that many New Yorkers are oblivious to, or at least don't regularly consider. I think the project is an interesting concept and I look forward to seeing if the waterfalls live up to the hype. From what I've read so far, people seem unimpressed.
As a side note, I narrowly missed being able to see a neat art project called the Telectroscope (a "tunnel" which linked London and New York) which was just recently taken down. I won't complain too much however, because I expect the waterfalls will make for more impressive photos.
UPDATE: I almost forgot to mention another unusual art project I saw in New York back in 2005: Robert Smithson's "Floating Island".
Posted on June 26, 2008 at 10:47 PM
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