Talk:Broken Obelisk
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Isn't one in Germany?
editI thought there was a copy outside a Berlin museum, don't remember which though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.11.57.26 (talk) 17:43, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
How many castings were made?
editThe way I read the article, there were five originals: Corcoran Gallery (now in Houston), Seagram Bldg., MoMA, and 2 at Washington U. But then it says the 2003 casting for Berlin is the fourth one. 98.197.249.31 (talk) 19:36, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm confused as well, but came up with six initially, then five. Two paragraphs are poorly constructed. Use of pronouns such as 'it' are not recommended.
Let's parse the sentences using Object Oriented Analysis. Our object is the Obelisk and each occurrence is an instance:
"Broken Obelisk was designed in 1963–64 and two were cast in 1967." [Instance 1] & [Instance 2]
"First exhibited in front of the Seagram Building in New York and another next to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., " referring to [Instance 1 & Instance 2]
"in 1969 another was cast for the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City," [Instance 3]
" while two others are permanently installed in Red Square on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle" [Instance 4]
"and in front of the Rothko Chapel in Houston. " [Instance 5]
"In 2003, with the permission of the Barnett Newman Foundation, a fourth Broken Obelisk was cast and temporarily installed in front of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin." [Instance 6]
"The sculpture in Houston is dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr.[2] It was initially acquired from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. in 1971." [Instance 5 then also refers to Instance 2 so the total now is 5]
"In Washington, it [Broken Obelisk] had stood at the corner of New York Avenue, NW, and 17th Street. It [Broken Obelisk] had been part of an exhibit put on by the Corcoran in 1967 titled "Scale and Content" that included other sculptures. These were Tony Smith's "Smoke and Glass" and Ronald Bladen's "The X". It [Broken Obelisk or "Smoke and Glass" or "The X"] had generated some controversy in Washington, a city known for its monumental sculptures, as it [Broken Obelisk or "Smoke and Glass" or "The X"] appeared as a reference to a broken upside-down Washington monument [ah! [Broken Obelisk]! ] at a time of civil unrest in 1968. When the Corcoran director James Harithas left, Barnett Newman had the sculpture [Broken Obelisk] removed in 1969. John de Menil funded the move of the sculpture [Broken Obelisk] to Houston, at which time it was dedicated to Martin Luther King." Awymm4l (talk) 22:00, 29 July 2012 (UTC)