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outdoor sculpture garden
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/...al/8858132.htm
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Posted on Mon, Jun. 07, 2004
Park commission to consider plans for Calder garden
By MICHAEL HINKELMAN
hinkelm@phillynews.com
The Fairmount Park Commission plans to take up a proposal today that would create an outdoor sculpture garden on the two-acre site of the proposed Calder Museum, 22nd Street and the Ben Franklin Parkway.
The proposal calls for eight black, steel sculptures by the Philadelphia-born sculptor, Alexander Calder, to be placed along a central, meandering path easily accessible to Parkway pedestrians, said Barry Bessler, the commission's chief of staff.
Bessler said the sculpture garden also will include new plantings and park benches and is likely to be completed in the fall, if the commission approves it.
It's a good time for a new sculpture garden on the Parkway. Right now, the Parkway's major institutions - with others, including Pew Charitable Trusts and Center City District - are leading a charge for new amenities on the Parkway to attract more pedestrians.
The new sculpture garden is the second phase of a $5 million, 12-year program funded by Pew in June 2001 to install Calder's celebrated works along the Parkway. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is overseeing the program.
Two years ago, three black Calder sculptures were installed in the garden of the Rodin Museum.
A tall, delicate, multi-colored Calder called "Ordinary" was placed on the site of the museum proposed for Calder, who came from the third generation of an accomplished artistic Philadelphia family and is considered to be one of the great artists of the 20th century.
Meanwhile, another Parkway tenant is also seeking commission approval of a project that will spiff up its entrance.
The Free Library of Philadelphia wants to erect two new, large electronic signs - one at 20th Street and Vine and a similar location at 19th and Vine - which would carry text about an author or children's event. The message will change once at night, for events the next day.
Sandy Horrocks, the Library's vice president of communications and development, said last year the Central Library hosted 1,348 programs - and this way, the public will learn about at least "365 of them."
The signs have already passed muster with both the city Art and Historical Commissions, she said.
If the commission approves the signs, the Library hopes to have them installed in a few months, Horrocks said.
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