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Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc

Richard Serra was commissioned and built a site specific public sculpture in the federal plaza of Lower Manhattan, New York. An eight year battle between the civil servants that worked in the location of the sculpture and the conceptual aspirations of Serra finally came to an end with the removal of the sculpture in 1989. …

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Cows On Parade

In 2006 this cow was melting like ice cream in front of the St István’s Basilica during the Budapest Cow Parade… An impressive and interesting take on the cows on parade movement. The cow was created by the Hungarian artists András Hajdu, Balázs Magashegyi and Krisztián Imre.

Project Pay-dirt

Artist Mel Chin, went to New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina to try and find solutions for lead contaminated soil. After thorough investigation he found that there were astonishingly high levels of lead in the soil of areas that had the highest crime rates. The project is still currently active around the country, …

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