Watershed, Tue to Fri, watershed.co.uk The brainchild of Brooklyn artists Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark, Empire Drive-In is an installation paying homage to the formerly thriving US drive-in movie industry.
He also worked closely with Mr. Rothkopf to map out the installation, paying homage to the Whitney's landmark Marcel Breuer building, especially the third floor where the retrospective takes place.
The installation pays tribute to Mr. Bispo do Rosário, as do the rotating costumes (by Mr. Mesquita's mother, Baby Mesquita), which are variously patchwork, decorated with bright pieces of fringe and scrawled over with words.
And in a dark cavelike gallery downstairs, Bill Daniel's video installation pays tribute to what may be the first generation of graffiti artists, the hobos who traveled the country leaving their tags on railroad cars.
There is the $15.5 million it actually cost to construct the installation (paid for with $2 million from the quasi-public Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and donations from 120 individuals and groups, including Mr. Bloomberg and his company).
Another film installation pays homage to the pioneering scientist Alan Turing (The Creator), as thinking machines travel back from the future in search of the father of the computer age.
The installation pays homage to Hyde Park's own history as a social destination for protest.
The original piece — which cost $22,000 — was given to Beverly Hills by the mother of silent-screen star Harold Lloyd; its installation paid for by the Women's Club of Beverly Hills, over which for a time she presided.
Kimchi and Chips' installation pays homage to this with the rope, which is tensioned to 5000kg, but does so using the very thing that replaced it pixels.
Maybe for the past ten years we've known [it was sustainable]." When I ask if a big public art piece like the Pan Am installation pays a lot, they grin.
