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Chris Rush Cohen keeps us informed about Battery Park events. First, there's Victor Matthews' installation, Beyond Metamorphosis, which has 3,000 umbrellas handpainted with butterflies, which represents the Monarch butterflies' 3,000 migration to Mexico. The installation will be there through this Sunday, June 20. Gothamist remembers when we grew Monarch butterflies in the third grade, setting them free, with only half of them actually flying away (the others were sickly, traumatizing many 8 year olds). You can order your own Monarch butterflies to grow here.
Then CRC covers a police bust of men selling counterfeit purses in Battery Park. Gothamist sees at least ten counterfeit stands as we make our way through Midtown each day, but never have we seen a police bust. What are the chances that the one counterfeit stand in Battery Park is busted?
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I saw this the other day, walking around Battery Park. It's right next to the Koenig sphere that survived the 11th. As there's 3000 butterfly umbrellas, I couldn't help but think it was an 11th memorial. Look at it that way, it's quite a site... like all those people who died are standing there.
how about more info on the park itself? sheesh
http://www.thebattery.org/
Thanks, kyle!
And Tim, interesting point. If you read Matthews' reason for the project, the idea of regeneration and life going on, it is very possible that there's a subconscious link to September 11. But then again, most powerful art makes us think about life and its beauty as well as its fragility.