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Skateboarders Won
Skate parks, once considered a menace, are booming everywhere around the world. Now we head toward the first skateboarding Olympics.
In July 1995, the artist Maura Sheehan installed a skateable sculpture in the anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, over on the Brooklyn side. Ms. Sheehan became fascinated with skateboarders after observing large groups of them careening through the streets downtown in the era before 9/11.
Much of that part of the city was still accessible to herds of rule-bending youth. “Their building of community is really a profound thing … More
The skateboarding of Christoph Rediger and Alessandro Magnani, captured by Christian Taro within the alpine scenery of one of the most beautiful Swiss valleys is a feast for the eyes and the senses.