06/26/2008
NYC Goes Chasing Waterfalls
In what's being billed as New York's largest public art project since Christo and Jean-Claude's "The Gates" back in winter of 2005, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has installed four waterfalls, ranging in height from 90 to 120 that will appear from June 26 to Oct. 13 and run from 7am. to 10pm around New York City. The falls are located at Pier 35, under the Brooklyn Bridge (above), on Governor's Island, and between Piers 4 and 5 on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The NYT talked to Eliasson.
The project looks pretty cool in this slide show from the NYT, although the first shots under drab gray skies from an amateur lens feel less than enthralling. I guess I'll have to see it in person and up close.
Clips of two of the waterfalls, AFTER THE JUMP...
Brooklyn Bridge Waterfall from jakedobkin on Vimeo.
Under the Brooklyn Bridge (via Gothamist).
And the one near the Manhattan Bridge, on a test run...
The New York City Waterfalls [official site]
Sphere: Related ContentPosted 10:45 AM EST by Andy in Art & Design, New York, News, Olafur Eliasson | Permalink
Like it?
Subscribe to FREE Towleroad daily headlines with our RSS feed!
RECENT STORIES:
Interesting, wish they would do something interesting like this in Toronto.
Posted by: Barrett | Jun 26, 2008 11:03:07 AM
We actually have something very similar in Edmonton! They have built a waterfall onto the High Level bridge here and it is used for various festivities throughout the year (i.e. Canada Day)
http://www.larry-bolch.com/hdr/images/HDR14.jpg
Posted by: Taylor | Jun 26, 2008 11:19:07 AM
we had a broken pipe coming out of our washing machine once, it wasn't very pretty. Now that I realize it might have been art I'll try to appreciate it a little more next time it happens.
Posted by: John | Jun 26, 2008 1:49:00 PM
Andy: why don't you take some pics for the blog? Your photos are usually better than anyone else's.
Posted by: JT | Jun 26, 2008 2:29:08 PM
Philistine comments like John's above always remind me of the words of Arthur Symons, literary critic for The Savoy magazine in 1896:
“Comparatively few people care for art at all and most of them care for it because they mistake it for something else.”
I love Eliasson's work. His Weather Exhibit at Tate Modern in 2003 was the best I've seen in that huge space.
Posted by: John C | Jun 26, 2008 4:20:16 PM
Pretentious comments like Jonn C's above always remind me of the words of Darrell Hammond playing Sean Connery on SNL:
"Suck on it(Trebek)...., suck on it long and hard, just suck on it."
Get over yourself John C., John was just making a light hearted joke which was funny.
Posted by: Derek | Jun 27, 2008 10:51:40 AM
Being a total art snob I side with John in his appraisal of the washing machine.
My best friend in college used to use moving tape to trap the hundreds of roaches in our dorm. She would circle and date them and leave them on the wall to die.
Her phenomenal portraiture now hangs in the Tennessee state museum. Work it.
Posted by: Br!on | Jun 27, 2008 9:47:01 PM