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Pavements lined with black gold: The Manhattan oil project by Josephine Meckseper.

Oil pump in the city

Photos: James Ewing

Manhattan, like most modern cities, is built on oil. It gushes in massive fountains and strange forms, but not in its liquid manifestation of course. In wealth, power, pollution, architecture and transport oil is at the cultural root of our age. The artist Josephine Meckseper sponsored by the Art Production Fund explores this idea in her thought provoking installation the Manhattan Oil Project. Read more

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