Scott Burton’s Civic Engagement and Eroticism Merge at the Pulitzer

Nancy Princenthal, The New York Times, January 9, 2025

Stylish and sharp-witted, Scott Burton’s sculptures of the 1980s doubled as chairs, benches or tables. When they appeared in urban plazas, college campuses and corporate lobbies, they messed with conventions for public art, provokingly and delightfully. A fresh wind blew in stale places. But a stealth polemic lurked: Burton also wanted his work to make people more self-aware and, especially, more alert to each other — he wanted to promote, as he put it, “public recognition of public values.”

 

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