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The Paterno Statue as Object Lesson: The Demise of Public Art and Monuments Built Before Their Time

Paul Gunther | Posted 09.24.2012 | Home
Read More: Paterno Monument, Penn State, Penn State Football, Penn State Scandal, Joe Paterno Fired, Public Monuments, Joe Paterno Statue, National Monuments, Monument, Monuments, Joe Paterno Penn State, Joe Paterno, Home News
Paul Gunther

2012-07-25-Screenshot20120725at11.42.49AM.pngThe demolition of Joe Paterno's premature bronze tableau sadly exemplifies the peril of a certain kind of hubris.

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'Call Me Maybe' -- Catching the Rays of Summer

Rabbi Daniel Cohen | Posted 09.11.2012 | Home
Read More: Billboard Charts, Songs, Inspiration, Eulogy, Summer, Maroon 5, Monument, Legacy, Carly Rae Jepsen, Music, Love, Spirituality, Home News
Rabbi Daniel Cohen

What song describes you? What song do you live by? Think for a moment about "Call Me Maybe".

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WATCH: The Bay Bridge's 2 Year Long, 1 Mile Wide Light Sculpture

Posted 11.29.2011 | Arts
Read More: LED Lights, Leo Villareal, Villareal, Light Installation, Light Sculpture, Installation, Eiffel Tower, Oakland, Monument, Bay Bridge, The Bay, East Bay, San Francisco, Arts News

San Francisco's beloved Bay Bridge is about to turn 75, and for this milestone birthday the city wanted something big. In the tradition of many great ...

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Exhibition Showcases What D.C. Could Have Been (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 11.18.2011 | DC
Read More: Global Trade Center, History, National Building Museum, District of Columbia, Unbuilt Washington, Design, Monument, Dc Around Town, Mount Vernon Triangle, Video, DC News

WASHINGTON -- For every monument, museum and bridge ever built in the nation's capital, you can bet there were myriad rejected design proposals, now l...

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Torch Cam Gives Masses New View of Lady Liberty

AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR and RANDY HERSCHAFT | Posted 12.24.2011 | Arts
Read More: Internet, New York, Statue of Liberty Renovations, Torch, Statue of Liberty Webcam, Statue of Liberty, Monument, Cameras, Technology, Landmark, World Trade Center, New Yorkers, Arts News

NEW YORK — Give me your tired, your poor – your Internet-connected masses yearning to see. Lady Liberty is getting high-tech gifts for he...

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Washington Monument Inspections End

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 12.05.2011 | DC
Read More: Monument, Earthquake, Damage Inspections, Earthquake Damage, Washington Monument, DC Earthquake, DC News

WASHINGTON — Engineers who have been rappelling down the Washington Monument completed their inspection Wednesday of its exterior damage from an...

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Urn Thieves Charged, But Widower Died Before Justice Served

Posted 12.04.2011 | Denver
Read More: Terry Herrle, Stolen Black Forest Urn, Urn Returned, Alaskan Cruise, Video, Damon Brimer, Jeremy Farr, Monument, Bob Herrle, Colorado Springs Robberies, Urn Thieves, Larry Bowin, Denver News

A Monument widower did not live long enough to see justice carried out against a pair of thieves who had stolen an urn containing his wife's ashes las...

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King's Eloquence Goes Far Beyond "I Have A Dream"

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2011 | Politics
Read More: Love Your Enemies, King Monument, Speech, Dr King, Mlk, Speeches, Statue, King, Promised Land, Memphis, Hurricane, Martin Luther King, Vietnam, Monument, I Have a Dream, Assassination, Mountaintop, Martin Luther King Speech, Martin Luther King Memorial, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The best-known parts of "I Have A Dream" have entered into a sort of comfortable familiarity, which allows everyone to view them without being challenged by the more pointed things Dr. King had to say that day.

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WATCH: Surreal Sculpture On A Farm

VernissageTV | Posted 10.14.2011 | Arts
Read More: Pablo Bronstein, Public Space, Public Art, Switzerland, Museums, Farm, Sculpture, Monument, Contemporary Art, Psychedelic, Drugs, Performance Art, Zurich, Countryside, UK Arts, Video, Arts News
VernissageTV

The Garden of Forking Paths is the title of an outdoor sculpture project, which the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst is staging on the Blum family e...

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The Recovered Architect

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 06.20.2011 | Arts
Read More: Philosophy, Installation, Spatial, Sculpture, Architecture, Will Corwin, Ruin, Mosaic, Art, Architect, God, Space, Heirarchy, Monument, Artist, Construction, Archaelogy, Gallery, Ai Weiwei, London, Arts News
Constantin Bjerke

Plaster, paint, wooden scaffolding? Smashed, shattered, seemingly left haplessly on the floor of the George an...

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Post-Apocalyptic Anti-Monuments

Posted 06.04.2011 | Arts
Read More: Detritus, Art, Alchemy, Apocalypse, Sculpture, Monument, Beautiful Decay, Gold, Artists, Huma Bhabha, Studio Visit, Saatchi Gallery, Civilization, Arts News

(Via Beautiful Decay) Huma Bhabha is not unlike a medieval alchemist, transmuting discarded materials into works of art—morphing civilization’s d...

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WATCH: ARCHITECTURE: Monument To The Dream, The Making Of The Gateway Arch

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Art, Stainless Steel, Eero Saarinen, St. Louis, Making Of, Charles Guggenheim, Monument, Monument to the Dream, Documentary, Civil Engineering, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch, Gateway Arch, Video, Arts News

(From: Phaidon Agenda) Charles Guggenheim's film Monument to the Dream captures the story of construction of the Jefferson National Expansion Memori...

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$11-Million Monument to Benazir Bhutto: APPROVED

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Flood, Pakistan, Representative Government, Angelina Jolie, Statue, Zardari, President, Taxpayer, Pakistani Flood, Government, Donation, Wealth, Benazir Bhutto, Monument, Disaster, Assassination, Bhutto, Per Capita, Petition, Pakistani, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

As flood waters ravage Pakistan's land and 20 million of its people, , yet another devastating blow has hit Pakistan: the government approved an $11-million statue of Benazir Bhutto. Yes, this is Pakistani taxpayer money.

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Next Best DC Arts Festival: Artomatic

Eric Shutt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Dc, Monument, Capitolriverfront, Artomatic, Art Show, Art, Style News
Eric Shutt

Hypothesis: confirmed. Artomatic's 2009 showcase showdown is ready to rock it in style. Days after City Paper's 2009 BESTof readers choice issue name...

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