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Pvt. Katrina Goins and Pvt. Allen Lucas share their experience of being split training Soldiers at Fort Sill. Both are going through Basic Combat Training at the Fires Center of Excellence before returning to their senior year of high school. (Photos by Marie Berberea)
"Split Button"
Artist: Claes Oldenberg
weighs 5000 lbs.
cast in reinforced aluminum
16 ft. in diameter
Oldenberg's 2nd major outdoor work in Phila. (1st was The Clothespin, 1976)
Oldenberg said, "The Split represents the Schuylkill. It divides the button into four parts--for William Penns original Philadelphia squares." ---Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/9/81
In 2011 Split, Croatia briefly featured in most of world's media. Not for the architecture, Festival of Mediterranean Film, Roman palace or 140% rise in room nights from tourism but for the horrific treatment of the first Split Gay Pride. Stones, firecrackers, spitting and Nazi salute chanting of 10000 angry citizens greeted just 300 pride participants. It was a very dark day in the history of my city.
Fast forward 2012.. I woke up today thinking ah.. going for a coffee and then off to get stoned.. The day of Split Pride 2012 arrived. This time it was better, bigger and 100% safe. New coalition government has shown the full commitment to human rights and this time made sure that Pride was a success. Split was a better place today then a year ago and so is the whole of Croatia.
Split-Rocker by Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen BS, Switzerland;
if you want to see better pictures of this object, check www.fondationbeyeler.ch/split-rocker