Carsten Höller Is Installing A Slide At New Museum

Installing A 102 Foot Slide At The New Museum

If all goes as planned, the New Museum's five-year-old building on the Bowery will become something of an amusement park beginning Oct. 26, with visitors hurtling through a giant plastic tube from the fourth floor to the second.
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It's not the first time that the German artist Carsten Höller has installed a slide in a museum. He has put slides in art capitals like Berlin, Milan and São Paolo, Brazil. In 2006 the Tate Modern's cavernous Turbine Hall in London became a playground overrun with visitors shooting through five tubular slides like so many packages going through pneumatic tubes. For safety baseball helmets and elbow pads were issued by the Tate staff, but some who took the plunge reported they got bumps and bruises anyway.

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