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...site but intended by the artist to be displayed outdoors, was donated to the University in 1981. A less prominent but equally permanent work of public art is displayed on the façade of the main office of the OFA itself on Mt. Auburn St. The artist, Richard Fleischner, “was asked to create a work...to communicate that ‘arts happen here,’” relates McCormick...
...Harvard, Silverstein explains that this is not the first time the OFA has sponsored such work. “Kristin Lucas, who created an Internet-based project last year, is interested in the threats of rapidly expanding technology as well as women’s issues. And Richard Fleischner, who installed a permanent work on the facade of the OFA, is concerned with the surrounding environment and how people view it, whether they should be paying more attention...
...September of last year, the University decided to tear down the nine-year-old sculpture after artist Richard Fleischner, who presented the Maze to the University in 1978, expressed dismay at the condition of his work during a campus visit...
Maze of Grass. Apart, that is, from earthwork artists. Unfortunately, the Newport show is short on earthworks -simply because land there costs too much. There is one piece by Richard Fleischner, in the grounds of Chateau-sur-Mer, that shows exactly the kind of unpretentious but intelligent relation that an earthwork can have to its environment: an undulating meander maze, a barely noticeable ripple on the lawn, covered with sod grass. It is low-key and perfectly appropriate in its site, harking back to a time when stately homes had garden labyrinths as a matter of course...
Though now supposedly abandoned, that brand of dogmatism stressed that Jews were perpetual, persecuted wanderers because they had killed Jesus. In a special issue of New Catholic World, Religion Professor Eva Fleischner points out that the birth of Israel effectively contradicted that thinking: "If there was ever an example of history forcing the hand of theology, here...