UVA displays Alexander Calder's "Tripes"
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Alexander Calder, "Tripes."
On March 28, the University of Virginia installed Alexander Calder's sculpture, "Tripes," in front of Peabody Hall, inaugurating a new public sculpture program at UVA. The 12- foot tall, painted sheet metal artwork, created by Calder in 1973, is on long-term loan from the Calder Foundation in New York.
According to the University press release, the piece is a "phantasmagorical tree that changes shape and form as one walks around it. It embodies ideas of innovation, invention and freedom of thought - ideas that Thomas Jefferson himself embraced when he created the University and that are a hallmark of inquiry at UVA."
This is not the first academic sojourn for "Tripes." The Calder work was previously a sculpture-in-residence at Brown University in Providence, R.I.
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That is hideous. I do not look forward to going back to visit UVa and seeing that eye sore obstructing my view of the beautiful campus. I am an artist myself and usually pretty open minded but I think that looks totally out of place in front of Peabody.
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