Daily News | An elegy for the giant game pieces outside Philly’s Municipal Services Building
the Friday before Memorial Day.
The giant game pieces that have dotted the Municipal Services Building’s Thomas Paine Plaza since 1996,Removal began the day of the announcement and on Tuesday it was completed,There will be no more skateboarding on dominoes or lounging in a wheelbarrow from Monopoly,The city said this public art project calledWhich is a fancy way of saying Philly no longer wants these pieces in their collection.As well as the “ongoing expensive” costs of maintenance, which officials said also played a part.
The artists of the work — Daniel Martinez, Renee Petropoulis, and Roger White — were offered the option to take their pieces home, But according to Marguerite Anglin, public art director for the Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, they decided to leave them alone.So we won’t one day find the Monopoly iron in someone’s West Philly basement growing mold.The game pieces were removed and will be temporarily housed at a storage facility.Turns out even giant playing pieces don’t make it out of the game of life alive.
The city said the artwork stood as a reflection of life’s journeys, “from child’s play to adult obligation,”But like most art, how you interpreted
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