The two German artists who placed white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge, prompting a major investigation by the New York police, did what any intellectual doofuses would do next: They called the New York Times.
“We saw the bridge, which was designed by a German, trained in Berlin, who came to America because it was the place to fulfill his dreams, as the most beautiful expression of a great public space,” Mr. Leinkauf said. “That beauty was what we were trying to capture.”
They were astonished -- and to their credit, horrified -- that the police viewed it differently.