Sculpture on the Boston Common honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy
MASS Design Group has unveiled a landscape and sculpture on the Boston Common that honors civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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MASS Design Group has unveiled a landscape and sculpture on the Boston Common that honors civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The sculpture, titled Embraced, was inspired by a photograph of the civil rights icons hugging in 1965 after learning that Dr. King Jr. had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The submissions reveal an incredibly varied aesthetic approach to honor the Kings at the Boston Common by five renowned artist teams who explore issues of race, colonialism and its legacy, and identity, among other relevant themes.
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