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Sculpted in Metal, Stories of History and Identity Take Shape
Works by Melvin Edwards are celebrated in a survey at City Hall Park in Manhattan.
Melvin Edwards’s sculpture, “Song of the Broken Chains,” at City Hall Park in Manhattan.Credit.Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
By Sophie Haigney
May 4, 2021
The sculpture, made of red stainless steel and chains, rocks and sways. The lengths of links some rusted, some the bright silver of galvanized steel ripple in the wind. Nearby, a very different sculpture also takes the form of a chain, this time represented on a massive scale, its links severed and scattered.