Where have all the hipsters gone?

Back to P.S. 1 for Week 2 of the 2007 Warm Up series. This time around, I accompanied J for an architect’s view of the Ball-Nogues “Liquid Sky” installation and the whimsical poster series curated by Israel Kandarian.

We arrived in LIC, bracing ourselves for a crowd similar to the one I encountered last week, but this afternoon the scene was remarkably sedate. What’s this? Hardly a line outside, where last Saturday it wrapped around the block… no crowding at the bars, and actual floor space visible in the courtyard outside the museum…?

It seems almost every other hipster was at the 77BoaDrum show at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in DUMBO, where Japanese band Boredoms staged a 77-minute, 77 drummer performance, in celebration of 7/7/7. The Times was somewhat unimpressed by the stunt, but no matter: the line for the free show stretched over half a mile long. New York magazine summed up the overwhelming response in the week’s “Approval Matrix” feature — That’s NYC: A million fun things to do; a million people who want to do them.