Greg B.
Senior Member
From the NY Times:
"The High Line, on the West Side of Manhattan, is at turns celebrated and vilified. It is also an art gallery of sorts.
Strollers along the elevated walkway, atop a disused rail line near the Hudson River, might have noted sculptural figures standing in bushes or reclining in plantings along the way. They are part of an art program that includes an unusual feature: a billboard rising from the Edison ParkFast lot at 10th Avenue and West 18th Street.
The billboard, measuring 25 feet by 75 feet, has previously served as a canvas for noted visual artists including John Baldessari and Maurizio Cattelan. On Monday, the automotive-centric piece “American Dream,” by the German artist Thomas Bayrle, asserted its place.
Mr. Bayrle’s billboard, on view throughout October, depicts a large if nondescript Chrysler company vehicle, circa 1969, wrapped in a bath of blue Chrysler pentastar logos. "
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/201...-in-1970-foretelling-the-malaise-of-chrysler/
Nondescript?!?
"The High Line, on the West Side of Manhattan, is at turns celebrated and vilified. It is also an art gallery of sorts.
Strollers along the elevated walkway, atop a disused rail line near the Hudson River, might have noted sculptural figures standing in bushes or reclining in plantings along the way. They are part of an art program that includes an unusual feature: a billboard rising from the Edison ParkFast lot at 10th Avenue and West 18th Street.
The billboard, measuring 25 feet by 75 feet, has previously served as a canvas for noted visual artists including John Baldessari and Maurizio Cattelan. On Monday, the automotive-centric piece “American Dream,” by the German artist Thomas Bayrle, asserted its place.
Mr. Bayrle’s billboard, on view throughout October, depicts a large if nondescript Chrysler company vehicle, circa 1969, wrapped in a bath of blue Chrysler pentastar logos. "
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/201...-in-1970-foretelling-the-malaise-of-chrysler/
Nondescript?!?
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