Oh Olafur. So many people love you and love your work. Does that make you suspect? Some critics have sniffed a bit at the experiential aspects of your installations. Do they have big ideas, or are they just big? Is phenomenology an art idea or an art anti-idea?
The Weather Project caused people to lie down on the floor and bask.
Round Rainbow has a formal elegance and ingenuity that may not have a big idea, but is far greater than the sum of its parts.
Today's debut of your four waterfalls around the New York's East River waterfronts and bridges has inspired a lot of talk. In the New York Times, commentary was running towards the irate: a waste of energy, money, and yet not quite big enough or powerful enough. Some are even alarmed at the thought that it is spreading disease through wafting mists of polluted river water. Still, it seems pretty neat that you got to do it, even though you told the BBC "Waterfalls I love them because everybody has something to say about them."
New York Times Slideshow
New York Times
The New York City Waterfalls (Official Site)
New Yorker Profile: Seeing Things: The art of Olafur Eliasson
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