`LAO-TZU' COMES TO LIFE ATTENDED BY HEALTHY PUBLIC DEBATE.(Spotlight)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | May 19, 1996 | Copyright

Byline: Mary Voelz Chandler

When the Denver Art Museum began the process of rallying support for its purchase of New York artist Mark di Suvero's abstract mega-sculpture, it quickly became apparent the piece would not only be highly notable but also risk controversy.

DAM officials shopped the piece around to civic and government groups. They showed photos. They talked to anyone who would listen about the virtues of the piece, which photographs pictured in an unpainted state, and so incredibly different from each aspect that the work held the promise of a ...

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