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"Chain Reaction" was granted landmark status on Monday night, but the ruling does not secure the sculpture's future.News, Landmarks Commission, Santa Monica, Art
‘Chain Reaction’ Receives Unanimous Vote For Landmark Status From Commission
Posted Jul. 11, 2012, 7:49 am
Mirror Staff
The Santa Monica Landmarks Commission unanimously voted on Monday night to designate the late Paul Conrad’s 26-foot tall mushroom cloud sculpture “Chain Reaction” as a cultural landmark.
However, the vote does not save the deteriorating sculpture installed in 1991 outside the Civic Center from being decommissioned at the end of the year.
Santa Monica City Council in March voted to give the sculpture’s supporters until Nov. 15 to raise enough money to help restore the fading piece of public art.
To keep the sculpture standing, private fundraising must meet about $250,000 that is required for repair and conservation of the structure.
Comments
Jul. 12, 2012, 3:26:21 am
jane said...
in 1990-91 sm residents voted against this art object and it was installed anyway. most residents still feel this way and the land mark commision passed over our voices again.