Folks in the neighborhood have often scratched their heads at the big gray wall that warmly welcomes visitors from LIC's austere industryscape to PS1...austere industryscape. The Community Board has actually been nagging enough that PS1 decided on some remodeling. Drum roll...

They want to put some lights in. Well, it's more than that really since the silly illustration only demonstrates the utterly simplest use of these lights. Apparently they can be programmed electronically, can move to timing, and can project milliions of colors. They are going to turn the wall very nearly into a video screen with projects from all kinds of artists over time! Well that sounds exciting. Remember when the UN turned their building into a giant 60 using vaguely similar tactics?

Or this giant eye (and light show) created by the Chaos Computer Club in Paris at the BNF a few years back

Well, the mundane press has it's point of view as well (and more details on the renovations at PS1 generally): P.S.1 has boldly declared, “Let there be light.” Community Board 2, however, has less than glowing things to say about the Long Island City contemporary art museum’s plan to spice up the neighborhood by casting a modern light show on what is now a lifeless concrete wall on Jackson Avenue.