Via Curbed , The New York Post on The Encampment.
The largest public art project to hit the city since “The Gates” in Central Park will be on display beginning tonight when a field at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island is filled with 100 illuminated canvas tents called “The Encampment.”
The Encampment will:
shed light on the island’s murky and painful history as home to psychiatric and smallpox wards.
And:
will tell a history of the hundreds and thousands of people . . . who have gone through social, mental, medical and penal confinement on this island,” he said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun.”
The fun begins tonight.The image is from one of the Encampment installations from by Alison Nastasi. Very cool.
