Next Thursday, October 29, is the 79th anniversary of the Crash of 1929. While the NYSE has already commemorated the event with its own spectacular Crash of 2008, a group called Voices For Democracy will be adding their own bit of art/commentary by placing the above ice sculpture in front of the New York Supreme Court building in New York City’s Foley Square, not far from Wall Street.
This same group installed similar ice sculptures of the word “DEMOCRACY” at the Republican AND Democratic conventions this summer. The ice sculptures take anywhere from 10 to 24 hours to melt away, which, given the recent shenanigans on Wall Street, is pretty much exactly the amount of time it took them to evaporate $2 TRILLION in wealth, or about as long as one of those AIG Executive Spa days.
