Chelsea Galleries/Performance Art, FREE?

Chelsea provides the public a plethora of free art galleries, scenic walks on the High Line, art installations & performance art.  Yesterday, on the 24th/10th Ave. where an operating LukOil station operated until very recently, is an art installation/performance art for those who watched actual sod being laid & watered.  Wow, how often do you witness a gas station in NYC being transformed into a lushly landscaped, rolling vista complete with life size ceramic sheep sculptures by French artist F-X LaLanne (1927-08) complete with a white picket fence to ward off the public.  I was amused by the magical transformation of an urban filling station into an oasis amidst our city's dense sprawl.  Look up & notice the large scale painting of a stern looking woman, peering down with disdain on this faux bucolic setting.  She knows this art installation is a ruse for the high aptmt. building this real estate is to built before the end of the Oct.  The owner of the property, Michael Shvo, art collector, slash  & destroy, developer will be constructing a residential unit jettisoned against the High Line; demolishing the beauty of rare public space.  "Don't it always seem to know, you don't know what you've got til it's gone,"(Counting Crows) the green gettystation is going to become a tall, commercial lot.