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http://www.nypost.com/commentary/21923.htm
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It's not that easy, Marcy. First you have to get money orders under an assumed name to pay the rent ... then, where do you keep the extra key? ... and just try getting phone service turned on using an alias these days ... not that I've given it much thought. We have to return to some very common-sense principles that everyday Americans live by every time they go to the grocery store or want to go to the movies or cash their paycheck, and that is you can't spend more than you have. -- Robert Gibbs ![]() מַרְבֶּה נְכָסִים מַרְבֶּה דְאָגָה |
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I've only seen pictures, but as a temporary thing it seems OK. It's eyecatching and arresting. As long as it's coming down at some point, and there weren't lots and lots of tax dollars spent on it. (Don't know that "disposable art" can be considered a good use of public funds in a cash-straped city, but I don't have any idea how it was funded.)
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I don't know about this "artwork" in particular, but, in general, "Christo" funds his whatchamacallits himself through sales of prints and such.
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From New York magazine: http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/features/10897/ Quote:
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I saw another critic who disliked the color, and I have to agree somewhat. The color is supposed to be "saffron" which I expected to be a strong yellow, but what they used is more like day-glow orange. Or maybe the shade that Cheetos come in. Hmmmmm.
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Funded themselves--yeah, right. It's got Israel written all over it. [/rense] |
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Because it is ugly, and pretentiously labeled "art".
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It's not that easy, Marcy. First you have to get money orders under an assumed name to pay the rent ... then, where do you keep the extra key? ... and just try getting phone service turned on using an alias these days ... not that I've given it much thought. We have to return to some very common-sense principles that everyday Americans live by every time they go to the grocery store or want to go to the movies or cash their paycheck, and that is you can't spend more than you have. -- Robert Gibbs ![]() מַרְבֶּה נְכָסִים מַרְבֶּה דְאָגָה |
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Don't you find the Guernica ugly? Nobody says it isn't art.
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