Olafur Eliasson set to make a splash in Manhattan with four huge waterfalls


	Olafur Eliasson set to make a splash in Manhattan with four huge waterfalls

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2-29-2008 7:03 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b3d3390d-572a-476f-b575-91fb1a276868/A7266CFF-5D7A-4848-A69B-F6B52D5BC17B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2260206,00.html" href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2260206,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">arts.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2260206,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arts.guardian.co.uk/img/E753606C-5AE0-4022-BE36-04000E695E83" alt="Eliasson's idea of Brooklyn Bridge waterfall" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2260206,00.html">He lit up the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in 2003 with an artificial sun, drawing 2 million visitors to bask in its orange light. Now the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has turned to another element in an even more ambitious project: installing four huge, freestanding waterfalls around New York harbour.<P>Reaching up to 37 metres (120ft) above the water, the falls will be installed between July and October this year at strategic sites around the harbour, including one under Brooklyn Bridge, and will be lit up at night to form part of the New York skyline.</P><P>
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Their cost - which could reach $15m - will be met by the US non-profit organisation Public Art Fund. The group also recently unveiled the first American installation by British artist Sarah Lucas, Perceval, a large sculpture of a horse and cart in Manhattan's Central Park.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2260206,00.html">In 2005, he installed a 20ft waterfall at Dundee University, and his 1998 piece Reversed Waterfall sent water uphill via a series of pumps and basins.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A7266CFF-5D7A-4848-A69B-F6B52D5BC17B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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