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High Line locomotive sculpture: NYC or not?
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<h4><span style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">[/quote]</span></h4> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is definitely some negativism involved in this art concept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is almost as though the artist is not quite sure what he is about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suspending the locomotive as though it is helpless and floundering is mocking the pride of the American industrial complex.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is not surprising that an artist would do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the higher the price of the art, the more I would expect it to distain traditional values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what I find unusual is that the artist seems to have the obsession for detail accuracy that you would associate with a model railroader, and yet he chooses this snooty mocking theme of railroading for the centerpiece of a railroad themed public space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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