Art doesn’t must apologize.
A former colleague as soon as mentioned that in the midst of a busy day within the previous newsroom. I can’t recall what he was referring to — column? photograph? assessment? — however it caught. I’d say it applies to Salvador Dalí to Vladimir Nabokov and extra in between.
Add to that checklist “The Embrace” statue on the Boston Common. Many don’t see it as an excellent match for the house, together with Herald contributing columnist Rasheed Walters. Close to 1,000 readers have voted in our survey on the matter. (75% say it’s not interesting; 10% vote it’s wonderful.)
But for right this moment’s “From the Archives” entry, we glance again on the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington, D.C., which was criticized from the day it was devoted on Nov. 13, 1982, and for years after. But, it’s now seen as a near-perfect reflection of a battle that by no means ought to have been.
Will that occur right here in Boston to “The Embrace?” Only time will inform.
The Wall is poignant. You can really feel the chilly granite as your fingers go over the names of the 58,000 and extra service members who died or went lacking in Southeast Asia from 1959 to 1975.
The 144 panels of polished black granite have been duplicated numerous instances since in native showings of touring partitions. I’ve seen the one in DC myself and imagine it has achieved justice to those that gave their lives in service to our nation.
Here are just a few clips from again in 1982 of that point. And, I counsel, “The Embrace” deserves a re-examination. MLK would need it that method.
Nov. 14, 1982, web page 1
Nov. 14, 1982, web page 3
Opinion, Feb. 23, 1983
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