Philadelphia Inquirer: For more than two decades, they’ve been out of public view, feared lost, feared destroyed, feared – at the least – grotesquely faded or damaged.
But from a cluster of nondescript plastic tubs stuck in an out-of-the-way storage room in the bowels of a Center City office tower, they were ferreted out at last, still bright and essentially unmarred.
And now, for the first time since the mid-1980s, the vanished Alexander Calder banners – part of one of the greatest public art legacies in Philadelphia history – will be on public view until March at the Central Branch of the Free Library on Logan Square.
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after they’ve been on display, they can sell them and keep the libraries open!