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Reader comment on: Waterfalls as Art To Be Installed in East River

Submitted by Louis Torres, Jan 14, 2008 10:53

Is anything called art by its maker and art critics, art? If so, then Olafur Eliasson's "immersive environments" are indeed art. If not, they are something else---science demonstrations, say, or fraud. --- Louis Torres, Co-Editor, Aristos (An Online Review of the Arts)


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