Every Sunday from mid afternoon until late in the evening at Meridian Hill Park in Washington DC, a large group of dancers, drummers, and the occasional tightrope walker or hula hooper gather to participate in what can best be described as a human circus. According to the most common version of the origin of the circle, it can be said that it started as a way to celebrate the life of Malcom X after his death in 1965.
Modern Head, a steel sculpture by Roy Lichtenstein, was installed Wednesday, August 27, 2008, outside the Smithsonian American Art Museum, at the corner of F and Ninth Streets, NW, in Washington, D.C. According to Patsy Tompkins from the James Goodman Gallery, Marshall Arts is “the only” company that can handle installing the 31 foot tall, 13,000 pound steel sculpture. Buy or license this photo.
According to Patsy Tompkins from the James Goodman Gallery, the sculpture was most recently seen at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, FL, and was previously installed in Battery Park City, one block from the World Trade Center in New York, where it survived the September 11, 2001, attacks. Ms. Tomkins also said the sculpture received a new paint job, an electric blue that is less shiny than it was as seen in the Fairchild installation.
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