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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim: The Foot Soldiers in Kelly Ingram Park
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim. Tales from the fascinating world of public sculpture. Monday, February 04, 2013. The Foot Soldiers in Kelly Ingram Park. Photo from http:/ farm4.staticflickr.com/3334/3232914387 46afe08a76 z.jpg. Last week, Mayor William A. Bell of Birmingham, AL,. Announced that, to honor the 50th anniversary of the horrific events of May, 1953, the city was opening a design contest to place a new sculpture in the Kelly Ingram Park in the center of the Civil Rights District. In May, 1963, ...
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim: Showing the Love- Part II
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim. Tales from the fascinating world of public sculpture. Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Showing the Love- Part II. Photo from http:/ farm8.static.flickr.com/7019/6694177749 12a1d4ee07.jpg. In my last post, I wrote about how artists depicted love in their public pieces. It's not always easy to translate emotions into solid, rooted, pieces of art, especially if they're large scale works. It's often difficult to make people experience abstract concepts through concrete expressions.
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim: Show me the love
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim. Tales from the fascinating world of public sculpture. Sunday, February 17, 2013. Show me the love. How do you express emotions in public sculpture? How, in fact, do you express emotions in any form of art? Writing poems and novels that show/express love is relatively straightforward (not easy- but straightforward). Photo by Patti Cassidy). How do you show love in public sculpture? And then, of course, there are the gigantically obvious text pieces, beginning with Robert Ind...
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim: Bringing Back the Dead
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim. Tales from the fascinating world of public sculpture. Saturday, January 19, 2013. Bringing Back the Dead. 8220;Extinction is Forever.”. We've all heard it, all read the warnings that if we don't do something to save endangered species they'll join the death rolls as extinct. None will ever be seen again. Do we forget about them, tuck their quaint Audubon portraits into our school books, and tsk our way to the next environmental crisis? Why blackened bronze for the birds?
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim: Update on the Blue Mustang of DIA
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim. Tales from the fascinating world of public sculpture. Friday, February 01, 2013. Update on the Blue Mustang of DIA. The day after I posted the story of the blue Mustang at Denver's International Airport, a local news station called for opinions on whether the 32 ft. sculpture should be removed. It seems that the stallion is up for its 5 year public art review and the floor is open for comments. See the story at. Right column on the time line). 02/24 - 03/03 (1). 03/18 - 03/...
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim: More on the Bird Project
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim. Tales from the fascinating world of public sculpture. Sunday, January 20, 2013. More on the Bird Project. For those who would like to make a pilgrimage to the birds in the Lost Bird Project I wrote about yesterday, in their permanent homes, here's a great map from the website with detailed info on getting to them. Http:/ www.lostbirdproject.org/sculptures/memorial-locations/. Carolina Parakeet- Kissimmee Prairie Preserve. State Park north of Okeechobee, Florida. Because blo...
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim: Of Cookie Monsters and Art
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim. Tales from the fascinating world of public sculpture. Thursday, February 07, 2013. Of Cookie Monsters and Art. Photo from http:/ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/9850266/Cookie-Monsters-golden-biscuit-found-hanging-from-horse.html. Theft has always been a risk for public art. According to England’s Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, “. But, somehow, the recent pilfering of a sculpture in Hanover, Germany, doesn’t seem so serious. Then came the twis...
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim: Of Forests and scultpure
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More Tales of a Stone Pilgrim. Tales from the fascinating world of public sculpture. Sunday, February 10, 2013. Of Forests and scultpure. How do you interpret a forest? Century. These ties recall that as they formed an abandoned railway that carried the lumber to the waiting mills. A giant acorn broken open, a massive chair overlooking the forest, and a hanging crown of fire all have their place and all are self explanatory, opening the hiker’s eyes and mind to the truth that is the Forest of Dean. Subsc...