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The New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery

posted by Jason Kottke   Aug 29, 2006

The New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery has tons of great old photos of Central Park…among other things. thx, bryan

“Floating Island” is a mini version of

posted by Jason Kottke   Sep 26, 2005

“Floating Island” is a mini version of Central Park being towed around Manhattan by a tugboat (photos here)…it’s a conceptual art piece by Robert Smithson. This weekend, a group of folks in a motorboat tried to board the floating park and install a miniature version of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates. When the captain of the boat towing the island “looked out across the East River Thursday afternoon and saw another piece of conceptual art gaining on him, he did not view the development kindly”.