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Artist to build four giant waterfalls in New York
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by innes | January 18, 2008 at 12:22 pm
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple.The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Installation will cost $15 million, funded by private donations to New York's Public Art Fund.
"It's about seeing water in a different way," Eliasson told a news conference on Wednesday, unveiling plans for the waterfalls, which will range in height from 90 to 120 feet -- around the same as the Statue of Liberty from head to toe.
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at 12:33 on January 18th, 2008
Hi innes
My G-d, when I think what 55 million dollars could do for the underpriviliged, I feel really ill.
at 13:15 on January 18th, 2008
I agree wholeheartedly. There should be a law against spending huge amounts of money on dumb things.
at 22:21 on January 19th, 2008
actually the 55 million is what they expect in tourist revenue, not the cost of building the "dumb things"