Where the High Line terminates at the corner of West 30th Street and 10th Avenue in Manhattan, the air is thick with the thud of hammers and the drone of machinery, a din that has come to signify the city’s unrelenting real estate boom. Smack up against the construction site of a Kohn Pedersen Fox-designed tower (the first in the bevy of projects rising in the Hudson Yards development), a new public art installation is undergoing its own transformation, only in miniature.
Today, the latest iteration of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s traveling work “The Collectivity Project” opens to the public, an imaginary LEGO cityscape that viewers are free to alter as they wish.
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