Mount Prospect Trustee Augie Filippone stepped off the dais Tuesday to represent a client trying to get approval for a zoning variance from the village board. Filippone and other village officials said there was no conflict because the trustee abstained from voting on the matter.
For International Women’s Day 2022, we exclusively preview our April issue profile on art icon Helen Pashgian, whose sculptures push limits of perception.
Massive Public Art Piece Returning to New Downtown Dallas Park
Robert Irwin s 700-foot-long, 8-foot-tall sculpture, once nearly resigned to the scrap heap, is being reinstalled at the site of a new downtown Dallas park.
By Alex Macon
Published in
FrontBurner
April 28, 2021
9:17 am
For years, sculptor Robert Irwin’s
Portal Park Piece (Slice) ran through John Carpenter Plaza on the east side of downtown. Installed in 1981, the 700-foot-long, 8-foot-tall work fell into a state of disrepair along with the plaza itself. Realigned roads cut off what had initially been conceived as a sort of welcoming greenspace that would pull in foot traffic from East Dallas and Deep Ellum. The sculpture was mostly ignored by the city and by visitors unless they happened to catch a glance of the big metal wall on its green island as they were driving into downtown. (It did receive more regular attention from vandals.) As plans to redevelop the park began to pick up steam, Irwin himself said D
How a Chance Connection Helped Save Robert Irwin’s Dallas Sculpture
The sculpture was in such disrepair, even the sculptor gave the city permission to remove it.
By Doyle Rader
Published in
Arts & Entertainment
April 8, 2016
10:09 am
The sculpture was in such disrepair, even the sculptor gave the city permission to remove it. By 2013, artist Robert Irwin’s
Portal Park Piece (Slice), a long dark metal wall that ran through Carpenter Park on the east side of downtown Dallas, essentially cutting it in two, had become scarred by years of neglect, graffiti, and half-hearted graffiti removal attempts. When a new vision for a redevelopment of the park didn’t include Irwin’s piece, Irwin himself granted the city permission to scrap the work, citing the condition of the piece. In mid-March of this year, crews began the removal of the piece.