The unscientific poll on Curbed went live yesterday and continues to evolve (those who hated the waterfalls were only at 42% yesterday) but I think most people, including me, agree Olafur Eliasson’s project was a lame, expensive and poorly thought out concept.
Regardless of how the idea of the Waterfalls seduced Mayor “Gimme a Third Term” Bloomberg, the Mayor and all New Yorker were scammed by an artist who should’ve known better.
Can someone ask Christ & Jeanne-Claude to come back?
2 responses so far ↓
1 Oly // Oct 14, 2008 at 7:51 pm
The squirrels in the trees are very happy that their nuts will no longer be salted!
Heeeee.
2 The Digest. 10.15.08. at C-MONSTER.net // Oct 15, 2008 at 11:31 am
[...] Take a poll to decide whether Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls “sucked big time” or were “the best thing ever.” (Via Hrag Vartanian.) [...]
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