Surrounded Islands blossomed on the waters of Biscayne Bay, Florida.
Eleven scrub-pine islands were surrounded by 6.5 million square feet
of bright pink fabric.
and people. Their works are collective efforts, designed to evolve with
community input. From raucous public debates with Miami officials to
frantic boat rides between islands during the final unfurling, the artists
are at work, probing, politicking, debating the meaning of art--creating
the social impact that gives each project its strength.
a 24-mile fence of white fabric over the hills of California disappearing into the Pacific.
Cost: $3 million. Duration: Two weeks. There is a struggle between the artists and the state
bureaucracy that wants to prevent the fence being erected, even though the ranchers whose
land it crosses support it. Opposition seems insurmountable, until the fence, finally
unfurled, brings the community together in celebration of its beauty.
to be known as "direct cinema." This 1975 documentary features Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith
"Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, the aunt and first cousin, respectively, of Jacqueline Onassis. The pair lives in a raccoon-
infested mansion and a universe of their own. It is at once a very personal look into a private world and a portrait of old
money, long gone, with the small relics of yesteryear left behind.