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May 30, 2007
Gehry Wears "Fuck Frank Gehry" T-shirt
Gothamist blogs this week's "Talk of the Town" piece in The New Yorker about "F*ck Frank Gehry" T-shirts and who's wearing 'em:
In this week's New Yorker, Lauren Collins has a funny bit on the popularity of "Fuck Frank Gehry" T-shirts. Popular, that is, with Frank Gehry himself!
The T-shirts first were a hit with Europeans who opposed the Bilbao project. Then they were sought after by critics of the Atlantic Yards. Then Gehry's driver saw the T-shirt at a super bowl party and soon a sample batch landed at Gehry's office. The architect explained, "Somebody sent it to me, and I thought it must have been the people in Brooklyn who are sort of angry. But then I thought, well, it must be loving, too. So I decided it was funny, and I put it on. And I wore it to the office, and everybody got a kick out of that, and then I wore it to the gym...”
Posted by lumi at May 30, 2007 8:41 AM