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These and hundreds of other intriguing recommendations are collected in a new book entitled Suggestion, a compilation of notes scrawled by New Yorkers as part of a four-year public art project initiated by the group Illegal Art.
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For months, Otis Kriegel and Michael McDevitt, the group's founding members, lugged clipboards, a big cardboard "Suggestion Box," Sharpie pens and paper all over the city, encouraging passers by to write whatever they wanted. That box turned into a book. "It's the natural progression of the art project," explains Kriegel.
After gathering close to 2,000 scribbles, they chose roughly 360 suggestions to represent the full spectrum of ideas. "More Fellini. Less trophy dogs," one writer demanded, while a more serious scribe called for "uplifting programs for the inner-city youth."