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The Billboards of New York

Should you ever need a visual metaphor for commercialism's domination of culture, here's a good one. Wouter Deruytter has a show up at Wessel + O'Connor Gallery in DUMBO that collects his photos of gigantic billboards, taken over the past four years in Manhattan. The exhibit is a welcome reminder that an environment we so often take for granted makes for a pretty surreal landscape.

See also New York's Great Outdoors

(Via Gothamist)