As critical responses to the exhibition emphasized, New York has long been an important source of
inspiration and material for the artist, who first came to the city
in 1960; the exhibition included the work I Love New York, Crazy City (1995 — 1996), a three - volume
scrapbook of architectural photographs, maps, hotel bills, receipts, flyers, and other souvenirs that Genzken began composing during a stay of several months.
Scrapbooks, the original Pinterest, serve as an artists» fertile ground
in which ideas,
inspiration and memorabilia are glued, taped and stapled onto pages.