Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is about to display to the world one of the most important public art projects that the city of New York has ever hosted. It is “The New York City Waterfalls”, the extraordinary series of four waterfalls that will rise about 36 metres above the water of the Big Apple’s bay: realized in full respect of the environment and dislocated in four points facing the East River, in Lower Manhattan, under the Brooklyn bridge anchorage and on the northern coast of the Governor’s Island. An extremely impressive work by the European artist, who received the entire budget of 15 million dollars by the Public Art Fund, a private non-profit foundation, which in past years sponsored also “Sky Mirror” by Anish Kapoor and “Puppy” by Jeff Koons, both installed at the Rockefeller Centre.

BOROS OPENS TO THE PUBLIC HIS CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION

translated by Giorgina Arcuri

Recently, in German cities, a new architectonic trend has started to spread, a trend that tries to modify existing buildings not in their space or aspect, but in their use. Indeed, Berlin has recently experienced a similar operation regarding a bunker. Built in 1942 for the German railway company, it was supposed to protect from air raids travellers arriving from Friedrichstrasse Station.