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I saw them last weekend and it is a pretty impressive display. I'd like to go to the met and see the whole thing from the roof garden because I think it's most impressive the more flags you can see at once. walking through them while interesting just doesn't seem like the ideal perspective. For those of you just looking at pictures I think most of the pictures show the flags as more reddish orange than they are in person -- i'm also not sure that "saffron" is an accurate description -- it's the orange of california poppies.
I don't think that you can make the argument that money invested in art (whether or not you think it's GOOD art) is wasted (esp in this case when the artist self funded the project). Taken to its logical conclusion this argument would lead to a world with no art museums, nothing but utilitarian buildings, no Shakespeare, no Picasso, potentially no parks -- I think everyone's quality of life would be much worse in such a world.
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