A work titled 'Apollo (Diptych)' by contemporary artist Sanford Biggers will stand opposite Harriet Tubman Square park.
The Newark Museum of Art will hold an unveiling ceremony Friday night for a work of sculpture by artist Sanford Biggers. The pair of marble busts, titled "Apollo ," were mounted this week on either side of the museum's 1926 entrance on Washington Street, opposite Harriet Tubman Square.
The museum’s director and CEO, Linda Harrison, said she was “thrilled” to incorporate the recently-acquired sculptures into the collection of the state’s largest art museum, in a setting highly visible to patrons and the public alike. The busts are mirror images of each other in black and white, flanking the museum's entrance on Washington Street.“By placing them prominently at our entrance, we signal our commitment to community and ongoing efforts to make visible the layered and under-told stories of American art in all of its complexity,” Harrison stated in an announcement of the 6 p.m. unveiling outside the museum.
“The mashups create a complex and tonally ambiguous effect – incongruous certainly, but not necessarily comic,” Sullivan wrote. “Biggers has spoken about his interest in artwork that has an ‘unfamiliar’ tone, arguing that ‘a great artwork can make you cringe’, and this cue offers one way into the work.”“In Greek mythology, Apollo was revered as the god of truth and prophecy, poetry, music, and the arts — an embodiment of creativity and intellectual endeavors,” Biggers stated in the announcement.
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