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Daniel Chester French’s “Peace and Vigilance”
There is a hidden gem of public sculpture just two blocks north of the outstanding offerings at Citygarden and Serra Sculpture Park in downtown St. Louis. Beautifully restored and displayed in the...
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Ecology of the Pruitt-Igoe Forest
Vacancy is part of the everyday in North Saint Louis where vacant buildings and lots dominate chunks of neighborhoods and interrupt blocks. While living with vacancy can have negative effects on the...
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Re-envisioning Richard Serra’s “Twain”
I first encountered Richard Serra’s public sculpture Twain, in 2006 after I moved to St. Louis. I was exploring the city on foot when I approached the silent and seemingly impenetrable steelmonolith....
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Where the air is rarified
Lambert St. Louis International Airport Terminal, interior, wall decoration. Ezra Stoller Archive. Artstor,A little girl in...
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Looking Upward to Look Outward: Olafur Eliasson’s Your Imploded View
When walking into the atrium of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, looking upward may not seem like the first thing one should do, but taking more than a cursory glance at Olafur Eliasson’s Your...
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Placebo Effect
Roxy Paine, American, born 1966; Placebo, 2004; stainless steel; 56 ft. x 46 ft. 6 in.; Saint Louis Art Museum, Commissioned by the Saint Louis Art Museum with funds given in memory of John Wooten...
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Accept No Substitutes: “Placebo” by Roxy Paine
Photo courtesy of Kiku Obata*This article is the second post of a two part series about Roxy Paine’s “Placebo”At the end of her beautiful essay Molly Moog mentioned how Placebo by Roxy Paine raises...
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A pool, a pavilion, a decoy: Mary Miss’s Pool Complex
Mary Miss, Pool Complex at Laumeier Sculpture Park. Photo courtesy of Ken McCown.At the end of a path in Laumeier Sculpture Park, where the borders of the park begin to blur with its suburban...
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St. Louis’ Monument to the Lost Cause
George Julian Zolnay, Confederate Monument, 1914, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO. Photo courtesy of Chris Naffziger, St. Louis PatinaSt. Louis’ Confederate Memorial (1914) is located in Forest Park, a...
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Quiktrip in Ferguson
In her book Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America, Erika Doss writes about the memorializing mania in the late 19th century as the American nation state started to solidify with the far-flung...
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