Tag Archive "olafur-eliasson"

DUMBO–Clouds! Bridges! Public art!!!

On the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, leaving Brooklyn. Loved the sky today. I took lots of cloud pix. This perfect summer day, Murray and I headed up to Brooklyn for a family visit. The traffic was light and we flew (both ways!!!!). Tom Otterness, Large Covered Wagon, in Dumbo park, 85 inches high, Prospect Street and Washington Street in Clumber Corner (thanks to DumboNYC for the location info) In D.U.M.B.O. We stumbled on some art in parks, including a recently installed Tom Otterness, a comic bronze covered wagon driven by a Ma Kettle type. I liked the coveralls and 10-gallon boots on ... More » »

Weekly Update – Two great public art pieces in New York

This week’s Weekly has my review of two New York public art projects, David Byrne‘s Playing the Building and Olafur Eliasson‘s New York City Waterfalls. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr. And see Libby’s post on the waterfalls. See more waterfall pix at flickr. See more Playing the Building pix. Olafur Eliasson, New York City Waterfalls, Governor’s Island Summer’s a great time to go on safari and see public art and right now New York’s got the goods: David Byrne’s “Playing the Building” at the Battery Park Maritime Building and Olafur Eliasson’s “The New York ... More » »

How wondrous are your waterfalls, Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson, The New York City Waterfalls, waterfall at Pier 35. Forget sublime transcendence. Olafur Eliasson‘s mega public art project The New York City Waterfalls take a somewhat different tack from his special effects reincarnations of nature. While the four waterfalls–all in the East River, two off of Brooklyn, one Manhattan, and one Governor’s Island–are spectacular, they are more in line with Oh, How wondrous are the works of man, rather than Oh, How wondrous are the works of the Lord! They are industrial–shameless plumbing. The water pours forth and plummets like the water from a tap or from an ... More » »

…Go Chasing New York Waterfalls

Waterfall at Governor’s Island. Photo by Cate Fallon Here’s a quick photo post of the New York Waterfalls by Olafur Eliasson. We went out with Cate Fallon and Stella on a Circle Line boat tour that cost $10 for a 30-minute ride to all four waterfalls. It was worth it. Both to be on the water and to see the giant fountains in action. If you don’t want to do the boat tour here’s a link to vantage points info and how to get to them. Closeup of waterfall under Brooklyn Bridge. Photo by Roberta The pieces, sponsored by the ... More » »

Between and betwixt in Brooklyn

Paul St George, Telectroscope, in DUMBO To top off our Father’s Day visit to Alex, Alex took us on a walk up the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights to see the Telectroscope–the Brooklyn half of a two-part art installation by British artist Paul St George. The other half was in London. Paul St George, Telectroscope. The entrance is to the left of the photo, into the mouth of the tube. The DUMBO installation, all brass fittings and Captain Nemo, allowed the London crowd to wave hello to the Brooklynites and vice versa! The two gizmos stood at the portals to a ... More » »

Smoke and Mirrors: Olafur Eliasson at MoMA and P.S. 1

Olafur Eliasson 360̊ room for all colours (2002) stainless steel, projection foil, fluorescent lights, wood and copntrol unit, private collection courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, all photographs courtesy MoMA, © Olafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson’s art is unapologetically built of smoke and mirrors. If you love the part of The Wizard of Oz where the film shifts from black and white to color you’ll delight in the similar charge Eliasson evokes from manipulating elements as simple as light, water and air. The material of one piece is labled mono-frequency lights, another label reads moss, wood and wire. If you were ... More » »

Olafur Eliasson at SF MoMA and at MoMA in 2008

Great article on Olafur Eliasson by Dorothy Spears in today’s NY Times. Eliasson, who created a “melting moments” color environment here at Arcadia University art gallery in 2004 is having a major retrospective at SF Moma that opens next Saturday. The show — with 20 installations including new work — will travel to New York and be installed at at MoMA and PS 1 in the April, 2008. This is an artist we admire greatly here at artblog both for his playful interventions with colors and lights and for his creation of both spiritual space and social space for human ... More » »

The excellence of Olafur

Libby told you about Olafur Eliasson’s “Your Colour Memory” in her post. I’d like to add a few thoughts and pictures from the opening at Arcadia the other night. First off, there was a huge crowd and you had to stand in line to access the piece. Crowd control assistants (guy in cowboy hat) kept people from crowding in to what was a rather small, and warm, space. People look funny in some colors and not quite as funny in others. The more intense the color, the funnier everyone looks. Speaking of color intensity, at one intense red point I ... More » »