Late Wednesday afternoon, I saw a couple standing on the northeast corner of the ramp leading from Highway 40 to Skinker Boulevard and Clayton Road. The young man was holding
As a young sculptor, Chakaia Booker collected scraps of ruined tires from the streets of lower Manhattan. The material was ubiquitous, malleable and symbolically resonant. Now "Shaved Portions," one of Booker’s largest and most ambitious projects to date, has been installed on WashU's Danforth Campus.