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# Astor Place Cube Latest to Get a Crocheted Cozy [UPDATED]
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/astor-place-cube-olek/
- Published: 2011-10-03T17:34:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:02:34.000Z
- Description: Is the anything Olek won't crochet? Is anyone or thing safe from her maniacal need to cover things up? Another question we're pondering, do we like Bernard Rosenthal's "Alamo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_(sculpture)]" (1967) better this way? Hmmm …
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, #image-position-hidden, Olek, yarn bombing, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/10/olek-astorplace-600.jpg)

Bernard Rosenthal’s “Alamo” (1967) gets the Olek treatment. (photo courtesy Alex Sarkesian)

Is there [anything](http://agataolek.com/blog/?p=50&ref=hyperallergic.com) Olek won’t crochet? Is anyone or thing safe from her maniacal need to cover things up? Another question we’re pondering, do we like Bernard Tony Rosenthal’s “[Alamo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo%5F%28sculpture%29?ref=hyperallergic.com)” (1967) better this way? Hmmm …

Olek is so gangsta she has a video of the making of. Another thing, Astor Place isn’t exactly a low-traffic area. How did the cops not see her do this?

Gothamist has some [nice pics](http://gothamist.com/2011/10/03/photos%5Folek%5Fbombs%5Fthe%5Falamo%5Faka%5Fthe.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) of the installation.

UPDATE: It has already been taken down:

http://twitter.com/#!/hyperallergic/statuses/120990167396909057