Spotted at an oh-so-swanky soirée atop the Beekman Tower: reclusive painter
and
performance artist Anatole Waverly. Anatole is perhaps best know for the
installation
Hail Taxi, for which she coated the roofs of every taxicab in the city of New
York
with a thin film of gelled kerosene and then set the entire fleet ablaze by remote
control
at midnight on Valentine's Day, creating a beautiful and terrifying spectacle as tens
of
thousands of flaming cars barreled down the streets of the city. What's next for
the
artist Newsweek dubbed 'an acid-trip Christo with a rap sheet for a canvas'?
Anatole
declined requests to speak with the press, but fellow artist Vaspa Nordic,
pictured
with Anatole below, confirmed that Waverly does indeed have something
new in
the works. Nordic, best known for his photographs of people fleeing in fear from
Waverly's
installations, was cryptic. "Waverly is a bolt of lightning hurled by
a harlequin
Thor at a world desperate to doubt and fear," he said. "She is drawing
back
the hammer. The clouds are parting. The bolt is coming."
