Passenger Trains > Bright Passages Along the Northeast Corridor

But wait... it's "Art" done by "Artists"! NEC "murals".

I painted a picket fence pink! I'm an artist!

Still, it's not overwhelmingly ugly... better then as is, but art?

Bright Passages Along the Northeast Corridor

"...the area has been home to (and a scene on view for train commuters)
a Christo-esque installation of seven enormous works of art..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/travel/bright-passages-along-the-northeast-corridor.html?_r=0

/Mitch



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/14 19:31 by Mgoldman.

It sure isn't going to get the RESPECT of true art...the plan is to let it
deteriorate.

It's going to look like plain ol' graffiti (that's if the plain ol' graffiti
doesn't overwhelm it first).

It's interior paint. The intention is for it to disappear by this fall. Look for "psycholustro" online. I wonder where the $300,000 came from for the project, other than being a grant.

More "art":

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/katharina-grosse-psycholustro

She got paid for this??

/Mitch

Part of a $300,000.00 grant...

Why was the Philadelphia Zoo one of the sponsors??


"All of the paintings are abstract, often featuring only a single
color, but each has a concrete goal—to remind the 34,000 travelers
who ride the rails on a daily basis about their city’s greatness.
“We really want people to see what we see,” says Jane Golden,
Mural Arts executive director in a press release. “We see the
deterioration, but we also see the beauty, we see the history, we
see Philadelphia’s past.”

Grosse is best known for installations comprised of painted piles
of dirt or discarded objects, displayed in gallery setting..."

/Mitch

When I look at this; I don't see "Art", I see "abandoned buildings"; which I call "Death by Globalization".

In Pennsy days, the NEC was lined with manufacturing plants like this (now long gone to Mexico and China, etc.). These were the true "job creators" who put the "Mighty" in the "Mighty Pennsylvania RR".

Since the Northeast industrial base has been devastated--might as well paint the remains orange. At least it takes your mind off of what once lay underneath that orange paint.

Joe

floridajoe2001, I'd agree with you, mostly, except that Philly started dying long before globalization. It goes back to post-World War II, in the 1950s when the decay started. Feed lots and refrigerated trucking killed the old stockyards. The industry was consolidated in low-wage paying states, typically in the south and west. Same thing that happened in New England around 1900-1910, when all the textile mills went to the south. It was the 1990s and early 2000s that killed the jobs in the south, when they moved, as you say, to Mexico and China.