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...doors. Officials of the General Services Administration, the Federal Government's housekeeping arm, evidently decided to do their part in making that prediction come true about nine years early. Last week they proposed a near total ban on smoking in 6,800 buildings owned or leased by the GSA, beginning in the fall...
...adopted following a period set aside for public comment, the new rules would permit smoking only in designated parts of cafeterias and vending- machine areas, and in private offices. GSA Administrator Terence Golden, a running enthusiast and dedicated nonsmoker, called the proposed ban a step toward "the total wellness of federal employees." Its effects on the dispositions of puffers within the civil service may be less salubrious...
...battle ended last week when the GSA announced that the sculpture will be moved to an as yet undetermined location. "Public art has a public responsibility," said the GSA's Dwight Ink. "For an art program to succeed, it must take into account how an art work impacts on the people who work there and on the public...
...GSA knew what it was getting in Serra's commission. It saw artist renderings and models. It did not expect a cute bronze of Peter Pan. Serra's massive walls and propped assemblies of steel and lead plate are among the most familiar images in recent American sculpture -- blue-collar minimalism, a pugnacious combination of muteness with extreme manipulations of space. Nobody could call his work accessible, but there is no denying his influence on other artists. To take only one example, the black granite notch of Maya Ying Lin's monument to the Viet Nam dead in Washington...
...censoring" of the sculpture would be the moral equivalent of Hitler's book burning, that it would start an iconoclastic stampede against all public sculpture in America and so forth. But the central point is that Tilted Arc was, according to Serra, conceived and contracted between him and the GSA as a permanent installation in Federal Plaza, and that the GSA should not convene a hearing to change the rules four years after the closing whistle. If it wants to avoid such imbroglios it should try / slipping a public-acceptability clause into its future commissions, if it can draft...