The Boston Globe reported today on a monumental but temporary art work, created by Brookline artist Janet Echelman, that was hoisted into the Boston sky on Sunday morning over the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
This big, bold, billowing, dynamic, kinetic sculpture was hoisted between the buildings around the Greenway to create a 1/2 acre, ever changing sculpture that will ripple and move in the breezes and be illuminated in the night sky.
It is a huge project, involving heavy duty engineering, massive amounts of detailed handwork, and tremendous political cooperation between private building owners and the City of Boston.
I can’t wait to get down there and see it first hand.
So what do you say Newton? Is it time to begin thinking about some more imaginative public art? If so, you better not let me get involved, I’ve got a very bad history. So get to work the rest of you. Let’s hear some crazy ideas.
Jerry, you may have missed the Christo that was on display in Waban Village for most of the winter. You can find photos here.
@Ted Hess-Mahan – Yes, very Christo’esque indeed.
It reminds me of an ill fated plan we had back in the heyday of the Museum of Bad Art. We wanted to sponsor a contemporary of Christo. Back when Christo was wrapping buildings around the world, we wanted to bring another lesser known conceptual artist named Cricso to Boston, to create a truly monumental work. Crisco had a plan to grease the entire Bunker Hill monument from top to bottom. Fortunately for all involved, the plan never came to fruition.
I like the Cambridge initiative that’s putting poetry on sidewalks.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/23/sidewalks/IsZTWrgk69SHITaSxl4akK/story.html
While I will reserve appreciation of the actual piece until I have seen it, I’m wondering if anyone agrees that the photographic depiction captures perfectly the seasonally appropriate essence of a bathing suit hanging up to dry.
@Marie:
Greenway Echelman Sculpture – Installation Time-Lapse – 5.3.2015 from Julian Tryba on Vimeo.
Thank you Greg for posting the timelapse. The little still picture doesn’t even begin to represent the piece. This looks fabulous. I’m going.
Thanks Greg. The video adds a lot. Looking forward to seeing it in person.