Pipeline protests heat up before Whitney’s opening
PHOTO BY VICKI DASILVA
As part of a late-night protest last week over the Spectra pipeline having been built into the foundation of the new Whitney Museum, light painter Vicki DaSilva drew this accusatory message in the air with a fluorescent lamp, above the location of what anti-pipeline activists call the “now-hidden Spectra/ConEd vault.” This time-lapse photo shows the path of her hand. The activists also beamed provocative projections onto the side of the new Renzo Piano-designed building, which is set to open to the public on Fri., May 1. The activists have released a video on YouTube about the pipeline’s path beneath the Whitney at https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk1n2Tt9Q .
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Kasoundra’s Kafkaesque story To The Editor: Re “The trials of collage artist Kasoundra Kasoundra” (news article, April 16): Bravo for making this explicit and concise account of what has befallen Kasoundra Kasoundra. I speak with her regularly on the phone and feel the frustration of her circumstances. I hope that this account can be copied
and sent to all social-service agencies and she can recover her life and continue to create her artwork. She never goes out of the nursing home, even in good weather. No one deserves such Kafkaesque treatment. The so-called guardians should be removed from their positions and a good friend should be given that position and Kasoundra should be put in his or her care.
IRA BLUTREICH
Free K.K.! Free K.K. now! Phyllis Segura
Nursing-home nightmare To The Editor: Re “The trials of collage artist Kasoundra Kasoundra” (news article, April 16): What a Dickensian nightmare! The system is hell-bent on making laws but really short on accountability. This report of a woman whose rights are being violated by the very system that purports to be helping her deserves major media exposure. Surely there’s some punishment to be meted out to guardians that abuse their position. Justice has a blind eye yet again. Talia Shafir
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April 30, 2015
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