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Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Move Along, Nothing to See Here



A 12-foot-long crocodile sculpture, pierced throughout with knives, forks, and other objects confiscated by the dreaded and dreadful Transportation Security Administration, serves perhaps as a metaphor for the society we've created in recent years. Fear, repulsion, fascination with the dreadful and dreaded—indeed these crocodiles against the skyline, were they not so amusing, would be quite depressing.


Tags:   cai guo qiang, met, rooftop garden


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Posted on 5/1/2006 ( Permanent Link )
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