Olafur Eliasson East River Waterfall, originally uploaded by shelby elizabeth
‘Waterfalls’ Display Opens on Harbor:
“New York City Waterfalls,” Olafur Eliasson’s $15.5 million quartet of temporary cascades dotting the New York Harbor, formally opened on Thursday morning with a ceremony at South Street Seaport and a publicity blitz by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who criss-crossed four morning television programs to tout the installation, billed as the city’s grandest public art commission since Christo and Jeanne-Claude flooded Central Park with saffron-colored fabric panels for “The Gates” in 2005.
I am hoping that I will be able to take some photos of the installation during my flyby of Manhattan en route to LGA.
