Calder’s “Stegosaurus” peaks out from the trees between the Wadsworth Atheneum and Hartford City Hall.
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Stegosaurus and City Hall
A bird’s eye view can shrink the impact of many human-made objects, but Calder’s “Stegosaurus” (1973) jumps from the foreground not only not only for its color, but also for the way in which it breaks the symmetry of the square in front of Hartford’s City Hall.
Outage
I was at Philadelphia’s city hall (quite the building!) for a tour when the building lost power, forcing an evacuation and cutting our tour short. Milling around in one of the entrances were a bunch of people who had similarly had their business at city hall abruptly interrupted.
Decaseconds 