Benjamin Franklin Parkway turns 100 years old... and Firefly is paying homage to this artistic corridor? While it's fun, colorful, instagrammable... I'm not sure it's accurate or meaningful.

"Perhaps the many colors and shapes of the glowing lanterns will remind viewers of the multiplicity of people who come from around the world to root in the United States." - Cai Guo-Qiang

This is fine. But isn't the point that the Parkway is turning 100? What all has happened in those 100 years regarding multiplicity - the incredible art, the people, the protests, the concerts and layers of action. Monuments and public art are easy targets today (many rightfully so)... but I kinda think that bright lights don't paint a picture of the endurance that this Parkway has exhibited for the last century...