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Port of L.A.
The architect was Franklin D. Israel Design Associates, while the text/critique was written by Herbert Muschamp.
When Frank Israel was a child in New York, you could drive along the West Side Highway on any weekend and pass seven or eight luxury liners tied up at the Hudson piers. Of course, jet travel had already made the liners obsolete by then, but nobody wanted to tell them that, because these ships were among the most beautiful, heart-lifting sights to behold in New York
Creative Time, 1989-1990
Catalogue documents a series of exhibitions of site-specific works in New York City. Avgikos describes the particular site of the Brooklyn Bridge's Anchorage and the installation and performance held there. While Phillips sketches the exhibition at the Battery Maritime Building, Muschamp draws similarities between between the Anchorage works and the aims of Social Realism. Chronology of events. Biographical notes. 3 bibl. ref