

Of human ingenuity, but they all share that ephemeral time Piles or Norwegian carved-ice-hotels are admirable feats

This is not to denigrate the genre of performanceĪrt: anamorphic sidewalk chalk drawings, Goldsworthy pebble It is indeed an art, but it has a rather short half-life:Ī momentary flash of brilliance, doomed toīe overtaken by the next wave, or maybe even by its own sequel.Įaten alive by its successors.
