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Yuri Gerasimov, Lenin, ca. 1990, now on the roof of 178 Norfolk St. See end of post for this sculpture’s history. Photo copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante
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Re Removal and/or Destruction of Public Sculptures

NOTE: All the essays excerpted below are accessible via the "Sculpture Controversy" tag. In the wake of widespread recent attacks on public sculpture, I'd like to call your attention to the…

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June 27, 2020
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Guest Post: Zenos Frudakis and Quent Cordair On Public Sculptures

I posted my thoughts on the removal of sculptures back in September, as "Politics and Portrait Sculptures." At around the same time Bill de Blasio formed the Mayoral Advisory Commission on…

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December 15, 2017
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Left to right: Jeronimo Sunol, Christopher Columbus, dedicated 1894 in Central Park. John Quincy Adams Ward, George Washington, dedicated 1883 at Wall Street. William Ordway Partridge, Alexander Hamilton, 1892, near Hamilton Grange. Ferdinand von Miller II, Dr. J. Marion Sims, 1892, Central Park. Anna Hyatt Huntington, Jose Marti, dedicated 1965, Central Park. All photos copyright © 2017 Dianne L. Durante
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Politics and Portrait Sculptures

Available as a printable PDF and as a video.  In the past few months, sculptures in Charlottesville, Baltimore, New York, and elsewhere have been lightning rods for love and for hate…

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September 25, 2017