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Foggy Day Fox 5 News Report

(2003) 3'04"
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Foggy Day is a temporary, open-air installation by artist Matthew Geller in which, at selected times of the day, a section of New York’s Cortlandt Alley between White and Walker Streets is shrouded in fog, a kind of urban earthwork enhancing various features of the picturesquely gritty downtown canyon.

The installation exaggerates and calls attention to selected aspects of the locale. Translucent rubber puddles on the sidewalk mimic the puddles created by dripping pipes that poke out from factory windows. A scattering of spindly but lush trees growing from building niches augment the existing meager vegetation. The fog itself references the steam escaping from pipes that jut from garment factory windows above the alley.

Funding for Foggy Day was largely provided by private foundations, but it also received about four thousand dollars from public sources, and soon after its opening, the installation was criticized in media sources as an example of possible misuse of tax dollars, and was spotlighted on the front page of the New York Sun and in a report on New York’s Fox 5 evening news. This video is a clip from that broadcast.