Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the events of the Tilted Arc dispute in order.
- Objections accumulate from people using the plaza
- A public hearing is held
- The work is installed in Federal Plaza
- The work is removed and never reinstalled
- A decision to remove the work is taken
Hints
- Installation comes first, in 1981.
- Removal follows the hearing by four years.
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- The work is installed in Federal Plaza
- Objections accumulate from people using the plaza
- A public hearing is held
- A decision to remove the work is taken
- The work is removed and never reinstalled
Why
The eight-year span is the point. This was not a sudden act of vandalism but a long institutional process, which is what makes it the standard case: the dispute was conducted through hearings and decisions, and the work still ended up destroyed by its own definition.
Practise Site: Form in Natural and Urban Space
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