In the coming months, a public sculpture created for the 1984 New Orleans World’s Fair, hidden for nearly thirty years, will mark its official homecoming in City Park New Orleans. Following the close of the Fair in 1984, the fountain sculpture, created by world-renowned avant-garde artist Lynda Benglis, sat hidden for decades in a former sewage treatment plant in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner. With the permission of The City of Kenner, which owns the sculpture, Benglis personally undertook and supervised the complete restoration of the work in the summer of 2014…
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