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Photos Of The New Museum's Giant Slide Being Taken Down Fills Us With Regret
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Jen Carlson
Published Jan 24, 2012
Modified Jan 24, 2012
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Three months is just too short a time to spend with something as special as Carsten Höller's giant slide, and all those other fun things in his New Museum exhibit that opened last October. But alas, we warned you, we warned ourselves, it was all coming to an end after Sunday. And here we are feeling empty, and cold—oh so cold, like the giant slide probably felt against one's skin. But we wouldn't know, because we never actually went down it.
Sure, we have regrets, and we could go on forever about them, but let's move forward shall we... oh God, they've posted a photo of THE MERRY GO ROUND THING IN PIECES! If you need us, we'll be drinking prosecco on the Jane Carousel with the ghost of the willow tree.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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