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One of the world's most prominent balls-on-stems public sculptures, amid construction workers.

15-year-old art:

Penelope by Jorge Pardo, 2002, steel with plexiglas spheres.

 

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In Liverpool, England, on August 7th, 2017, in Wolstenholme Square between Gradwell Street and Parr Street.

 

The sculpture was "initiated by Tate Liverpool as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2002 and commissioned by the Liverpool Rope Walks Partnership."

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Liverpool (7010597)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• construction sites (300312090)

• outdoor sculpture (300047180)

• polychromy (300247962)

• public sculpture (300047112)

 

Wikidata items:

• Category:2000s in art (Q15293515)

• Category:2002 sculptures (Q8186624)

• Category:Steel sculptures (Q8817600)

• Liverpool Biennial (Q6658316)

• Liverpool city centre (Q6658342)

• plastic sculpture (Q41033985)

• RopeWalks, Liverpool (Q7366707)

 

Transportation Research Thesaurus terms:

• Barricades (Qtpsb)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Mythology, Greek, in art (sh85089397)

 

Union List of Artist Names IDs:

• Pardo, Jorge (American sculptor, installation artist, and designer, born 1963) (500114912)

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Uploaded on October 13, 2017
Taken on August 7, 2017