New York Times reports. The society had selected Canal Park, which is near the US Department of Transportation building on M Street, Southeast, but
Marabar‘s creator, Elyn Zimmerman, objected to the change in venue, Rebecca Ritzel reports for the
Times. Zimmerman, Ritzel reports, “deemed it inappropriate, citing a lack of security and potential for skateboarders to damage the carefully polished and shaped granite boulders,” which are only half a foot thick in some areas.
The society told the Historic Preservation Review Board it would consult with Zimmerman on a new home for
Marabar weigh about a million pounds, with the largest about a quarter of that weight. Zimmerman would like to see the sculpture go to a “university, sculpture garden or other cultural institution,” Ritzel writes. Wherever it ends up, Zimmerman said, it should be somewhere ducks can access it, as they do now.
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March 5, 2021
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A rendering of Hiroshi Sugimoto s design for the Hirshhorn garden. Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
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