Because “everyone loves to smash stuff,” David Belt’s installation in Gowanus has New Yorkers chucking glass bottles at each other in an art context. “Glassphemy“ is set up as a large cage of bullet proof glass and steel, lit from below. From an elevated platform, visitors can throw bottles at the people on the other side of the glass and watch them shatter in an explosion of light and vibration. Read more »
The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to declare Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal a Superfund site, a move that would bring in federal money to thoroughly cleanup the polluted waterway. The EPA reports that sediment in the canal is “contaminated with a variety of pollutants, including pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), metals and volatile organic contaminants (VOCs), and significant contamination associated with coal tar.” There’s widespread support for flushing out the canal, however critics worry that proposed developments in the area will be delayed, or even killed, by the cleanup efforts. Some developers are even concerned that the Superfund status has too much negative stigma, as though the 1.8-mile cesspool didn’t have any already. |NY Times|
Photo by Will Sherman
This roller work from BOOKER on 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn pretty much sums up the general consensus on the recent spate of corporate welfare—add automakers to the list—and the hole that Wall Street has dug us into.
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