University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 16, 1992
Drum action
Entertaining a crowd of about 200 in front of Wescoe Hall, Blair Newsome, Lawrence junior, backs the KU Jazz Combo I on drums. Newsome and the rest of the combo, directed by Dan Gailey, performed for an hour as part of the Celebration of the Arts yesterday.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Swiss art group to drape top of Brooklyn Bridge
NEW YORK — The Brooklyn Bridge, still chic at age 108, may model a taller haller top.
The Associated Press
The Department of Transportation said yesterday that a Swiss art group would dress the suspension bridge's towers and cables in strips of cloth.
Environmental artists Philipp Krebs and Sabine Lutzen are directing the project. They are fans of the artist Christo, who gained fame for draping cloth over buildings, bridges and even islands.
The bridge project, "Air Waves," is supposed to depict a "visible wind." But a photo of the duo's similar bridge art in Bern, Switzerland, looks more like a curvaceous bikini top or halter.
A halter is "more appropriate, perhaps, than a buster would be for the Brooklyn Bridge, which is of a certain age," said Kim Bonnell, an editor of Glam magazine.
And besides, halter tops are very big this fashion season.
Very big, indeed. Would you believe 1,120feet
looks?
Engineers met with the Swiss group in January.
"We thought it looked like a great idea," transportation department representative Joe DePlaco said.
The art group will present a more detailed proposal in May. If plans proceed smoothly, the bridge will be adorned in May 1989 for about three years. The bridge's 110th birthday is May 24, 1993.
DePlaco said traffic was a primary concern. The bridge averages 129,620 vehicles a day, and gawking drivers could cause t-ups.
"We would not like to see a sea plane mingle with the halter top," DePlasco said.
The halter's 243 panels, each 72 feet long, would flutter above road-support cables called suspenders and stays.
A halter and suspenders? Why not, says Bonnell.
"The big news of fall is men's wear but with a feminine slant," Bonnell said, "not exactly cross-dressing, but freedom to wear a combination of men's wear and women's wear and not worry so much about what gender you're projecting."
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