Word: monumenta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer opened last week in the conservative and flintily traditional community of Newport, R.I. It is an exhibition named "Monumenta," organized by Art Historian Sam Hunter and a staff of his graduate students from Princeton and backed by an enthusiastic Newport resident named William Crimmins. Fifty-four large works by 40 artists have been installed on the island's shores, in its shopping center and around the gardens of its mansions: an encyclopedia of large-scale sculpture from the U.S. and Europe. "Monumenta" runs through Oct. 13, providing an unexpected cultural foil to the America's Cup races...
...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. In sum, the "Monumenta" project discloses a great deal about the survival of public sculpture in the 1970s in something other than its usual urban form-a grandiose ashtray plunked down to decorate a skyscraper's barren forecourt. The Newport exhibition is worth the trip, even though few things in it are quite...