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And then there were four. A tipster just sent us this shot of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's Brooklyn Bridge waterfall, being tested this afternoon. This completes the teaser set for all the NYC Waterfall aficionados out there. Also seen below are the Governors Island test, the Pier 35 test in Manhattan, and the other Brooklyn waterfall between Piers 4 and 5.
The NYC Waterfalls – which are not being paid for with city money, but are being produced by The Public Art Fund – will all be raging simultaneously starting Thursday morning and continuing through October. More coverage here.
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Those things are boresville USA
finally, i can relax-- i couldn't focus on anything else until i knew we had seen pix of all four!
for what it's worth, i think this one looks the best of all the ones so far-- i think the brooklyn bridge tower blocks the wind, so the water falls in a more organized way than from the other three.
I saw the Pier 35 waterfall last night and I really hope they intend to pump more water through it. It didnt look so much like a waterfall as drainage runoff.
what a waste of tax dollars
saw that this morning on the N train. It looks good from a 3/4 profile and that's it. Any other angle and it looks crappy. I give it a B though.
Sigh. Once again for about the millionth time, the waterfalls are privately funded. No taxpayer money is being spent.
An enterprising artist should craft four giant "urinal cakes" and float them underneath the waterfalls.
I saw the Pier 35 waterfall last night and I really hope they intend to pump more water through it. It didnt look so much like a waterfall as drainage runoff.
My suspicion is that they can't. It seems to be a serious engineering miscalculation and they can only pump so much water through relatively small pipes.
Sigh. Once again for about the millionth time, the waterfalls are privately funded. No taxpayer money is being spent.
Not completely true. If you check their website, they specifically say:
"The Public Art Fund is a non-profit organization supported in part with Public Funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, A State Agency, the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, and through generous contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations."
They also list a few other government agencies. So, yes, tax dollars are being used to fund part of this.
What a waste of electricity.
meh.
I always love how some people are quick to jump in with the accusation of "wastes of taxpayers dollars" whenever public art is presented. Those same people probably never pipe up when the government wastes billions on needless wars or on botched responses to hurricanes.
The cost of public art (which in this case appears practically negligible) is pocket change in comparison. Not to mention the fact that art projects draw tourists and help the city's image in the end.