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Yesterday I went to the New York Earth Room and the Broken Kilometer. The Broken Kilometer is a storefront in Soho filled with 500 2 meter long brass rods arranged in rows. The distance between the rods increases by 5 mm each iteration, so looking towards the back of it creates a weird floating effect as the spacing fights against the perspective.
The New York Earth Room is a second floor room filled with 140 tons of dirt. To see it you have to get buzzed into a random apartment building then go up the steepest staircase in NY. I felt like I was trespassing.
Both of these things are maintained free to the public by the Dia Art Foundation. So then I started going down a rabbit hole about Dia, and why one would pay the rent to keep an apartment filled with dirt in the prime real estate of Soho. (The short answer is oil money. The long answer is the land art movement is deeply weird.)
This led me to another of their installations: Times Square. This is a grate in Times Square that emits a hum. It has been there my entire life. It is not signed or labeled in any way. I have spent significant time in Times Square as my office was there and never ever noticed this. What the fuck. Seriously, what the fuck. Is art that is imperceptible unless you went down a wiki rabbit hole still art in any way?
PS I feel very New York right now.
The New York Earth Room is a second floor room filled with 140 tons of dirt. To see it you have to get buzzed into a random apartment building then go up the steepest staircase in NY. I felt like I was trespassing.
Both of these things are maintained free to the public by the Dia Art Foundation. So then I started going down a rabbit hole about Dia, and why one would pay the rent to keep an apartment filled with dirt in the prime real estate of Soho. (The short answer is oil money. The long answer is the land art movement is deeply weird.)
This led me to another of their installations: Times Square. This is a grate in Times Square that emits a hum. It has been there my entire life. It is not signed or labeled in any way. I have spent significant time in Times Square as my office was there and never ever noticed this. What the fuck. Seriously, what the fuck. Is art that is imperceptible unless you went down a wiki rabbit hole still art in any way?
PS I feel very New York right now.
