ART + ARCHITECTURE
Standing Beast, Sol LeWitt’s
Lines in Four Directions,
Richard Serra’s Reading
Cones and Tony Tassett’s
Snow Sculpture for Chicago.
Chicago’s arts program
has also supported temporary art projects such as
Botero, Herbert Migdoll’s
Swimmers, and, most
notably, Cows on Parade,
which brought a herd of
fiberglass bovines to the
streets of Chicago in 1999.
So what’s next for
Chicago? Well, wunderkind Jeff Koons lost
out to Kapoor in the
Millennium Park competition. The city chose the
Bean rather than Koons’
enormous riff on a playground slide, which was
to stand 150 feet tall with
an observation deck at
the top. Who knows?
Perhaps a Koons’ piece
will pop up on another
Chicago plaza, providing
yet another venue for
a community to come
together and frolic with
a piece of art. n
Alexander Calder
Flamingo
Marc Chagall
The Four Seasons
Claes Oldenburg
Batcolumn
Sir Henry Moore
Large Interior Form
Jean Dubuffet
Monument with Standing Beast
Sol LeWitt
Lines in Four Directions
PHOTO CREDITS: TOP (left to right): Rebecca Peplinski and UGardener.
Via Flickr. MIDDLE (left to right): Heidi De Vries and Clint Gardner. Via Flickr.
BOTTOM (left to right): Neal Jennings. Via Flickr. Photo of LeWitt piece
courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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