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February 12, 2007
Missing Link: Brooklyn Public Library Drops Anti-AY Art
From the "Record:"
The mixed media collage pictured above depicts the new Atlantic Yards arena as a toilet bowl. It's a creation of local artist Donald O’Finn, and it was on display in the original Footprints art show, which was on display in Prospect Heights' Grand Space in November. The exhibit was meant to express the participating artists' views of life in the footprint of Atlantic Yards — but when the exhibit reopens at Brooklyn Public Library on February 13, O'Finn's work won't be included, nor will several other works that were deemed "too critical" by the library. The folks at Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn are calling it censorship. Any thoughts?
The missing link
NoLandGrab and Gowanus Lounge cited The Real Estate Observer for the scoop. Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn only posted a response AFTER the story broke.
We don't know why the editors at Brooklyn Record didn't give The Observer credit for the scoop or shed light on the full story, but we know that bloggers are pretty sensitive when the mainstream media (msm) doesn't give them credit for their stories. The msm-published blog The Real Estate Observer is sort of a hybrid that probably deserves the same respect.
In the blogosphere, oversights like this tend to propagate, — NY Magazine's blog Daily Intelligencer linked to the DDDB remarks, giving credit for the citing to Brooklyn Record.
Is the distinction important? Well, for once, it wasn't DDDB that issued a strongly worded press release on a wing and a prayer that someone in the mainstream media might give damn about the largest single-source private project in NYC history that is about to turn a strip of Prospect Heights into the densest residential community in the nation (but we digress...).
Posted by lumi at February 12, 2007 10:48 AM