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MFA commissions artist to address the controversial statue

The MFA will commission artists to create works responding to a controversial statue of a Native American man that sits at the museum's main entrance.

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Taking Place

Most events are fleeting and temporary, but not so are the places where they occur and leave their traces, if only in memory. As a child in the sixties touring Boston’s historical sites, that which left the deepest impression was neither a statue nor a church, but a circle of cobblestones, maybe a dozen feet in diameter, set on a traffic island at a busy downtown intersection.

The Eyes of Site Specific Art (Re-imagined)

The Guest Critic is charged with suggesting a topic or theme that can be explored and debated for this special section of the Rail. On the occasion of the re-staging of Jenny Holzer’s 1989, architecturally encompassing piece at the Guggenheim, I have chosen the theme of site-specific Art. To my mind, Holzer’s Guggenheim project is one of the great site-specific works of my generation. It is also part of a larger history that has grown in some very interesting ways.

Megan Cope Discusses Art's Role in Restoration and Rebirth