Will an Art Intervention Save the "Lamentations" Ladies?

From: Seven Days | Date: April 2, 2008| Author: Polston, Pamela | Copyright information

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The women were very tall, vaguely ominous looking, and dressed in black. Anyone who spent time on the University of Vermont campus - specifically the quadrangle behind the Reining Museum - surely noticed them. Before, that is, they disappeared in 2004. Collectively called "Lamentations," the five metal sculptures by Judith Brown paired classical form with a recycled, scrap-metal aesthetic. After the artist's death in 1992, her family donated the works to UVM. Magisterial and mournf...

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