As part of the city's annual summer art series, Olafur Eliasson will install four freestanding waterfalls in the East River. The 60 to 70 foot walls of H20, predicted to be the city's biggest public art project since Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates," will be visible from the Seaport, Brooklyn Heights, and the Governors Island Ferry from mid-July to mid-October, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, and illuminated after sunset.
Unlike the floating pool that rested on the banks of the East River last summer, it doesn't look like visitors will be able to play in these gigantic waterfalls.
The project will coincide with a retrospective of Eliasson's work at the Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 between
April 20 and June 30. The exhibition is currently at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art.
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