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...Tucker's dream for Arts on the Point was to establish the 200 harborside acres of the UMass campus on Columbia Point, in Dorchester, as the city's first collection of large-scale outdoor sculpture. The campus's bland "prison-like" facades and vast open spaces screamed potential to Tucker. He desired to raise Boston's profile in the world of contemporary art while renewing public appreciation for the challenges and beauties of modern sculpture. Admittedly an idealist, Tucker nevertheless realizes the difficulties of his pursuit: "When works of art are challenging and in a public space, it raises people...
...Tucker empathizes with the disenfranchised group, but waves off some of their logistical concerns. In his eyes, the LeWitt piece is not a concrete wall, and merely punctuates the harbor view. He dismisses some worries, noting that none of the pieces have been climbed on or graffitied yet. With this piece as the target of contention, however, it has been taken off the Arts on the Point discussion table: "It is more important to move ahead in dialogue with the community rather than keep ["100 Columns"] as a point of argument," concedes Tucker...
...portal, forms a cavernous 32' square, which raised concerns about public sex, in addition to distaste for its large steel presence. Demolition prevented "Stinger"'s installation the day before it was supposed to go up. On May 25, unidentified vandals smashed the cement mount supports for the piece, forcing Tucker to send it back to its Jersey warehouse via crane. The vandalism's $8000 setback is just the tip of the contention iceberg. Tucker has received hate mail, plus a threat from a woman who says she will throw herself in front of the bulldozer if the university continues with...
Arts on the Point team. Since June, she has been working as the director of educational programs and community outreach, seeking to establish community discussions. Gould claims that when the sculpture park was launched, its directors assumed that a community liaison at the college would be handling such communication. Tucker reports that he did not originally know of the existence of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association, but had deliberated plans with the merchant organization, Columbia Point Associates. And since controversy didn't explode until the second major outdoor piece was to go up, the deteriorating lines of communication proved...
...levity and aesthetic variation intended by Arts on the Point is more predominant in the organic forms of William Tucker, whose "Rhea," "Kronos," "Ouranus" and "Vishnu" sculptures dot the platforms by the Clark Athletic Center and McCormack building. "Vishnu," the most humanoid of his works, stands solo while the other three godlike representations are grouped together, as if involved in a secret dialogue. Dennis Oppenheim's playful pieces literally converse with each other. Located on the veranda of the Quinn cafeteria, "Black" is an installation of large pots and kettles that seem to have jumped straight out of Alice...