Tilted?

"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice," Martin Luther King famously said. The arc of art, on the other hand, is about 120 feet and it bends towards New Jersey. Until now.

After diligent scouting, your intrepid correspondent has found two possible sites for Richard Serra's controversial Tilted Arc, installed in the Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan in 1981 and removed in 1989 in the Battle of High Art and Lowly Pedestrian Just Trying to Get across this Damn Plaza. Reputedly, the piece (in pieces) occupies a warehouse somewhere in New Jersey.

Site A

Let's bring it back to New York but this time let the BQE provide the platform. Both sites are in Brooklyn, the first one below a beautiful church in Carroll Gardens, the second--my personal favorite--in Greenpoint where the east- and westbound lanes of the BQE seek out different levels.

There's a common complaint that we don't take time to really look at art. With the traffic conditions in these two spots, I think I can guarantee the piece will get some good long looks.

Q: But what if Serra's arc tilts the wrong way for the site?
A: Turn the damn thing upside down.

Site B