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Article: CRIMES OF THE ART OUR CITY DESERVES MAGNIFICENT PUBLIC ART, BUT WE'RE STUCK WIHT DRECK. COULD TRADING BRONZE FOR ICE HELP?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 12, 2006
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Boston's system for designing and placing public art is broken,
producing in the last few years a slew of pieces that are mostly
mediocre and sometimes awful.
The Ted Williams statue next to Fenway Park (2004) is a bad
action figure. The police memorial (2005) by police headquarters in
Roxbury is an uninspired derivative of the firefighters' memorial
(1997) on the Commonwealth Avenue mall, which itself imitates the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.A Globe critic derided
the Commonwealth Avenue women's memorial (2003) as a "merry-go-
round, with an awkward emptiness at its center." The Irish Times
castigated the Irish famine memorial (1998) in Downtown Crossing as
"a monument ...