Two years after Google Inc. announced plans to acquire the James R. Thompson Center from the state, construction crews began uprooting the center’s trademark sculpture from its courtyard Friday. Th…
Workers remove the sculpture Monument With a Standing Beast by Jean Dubuffet outside the Thompson Center on April 5, 2024, as they prepare to move it to an undisclosed location. When Rolf Achilles, an art historian and a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, walked by the Loop’s James R. Thompson Center Thursday, he said he felt a profound sadness.
According to the city, it comprises four elements –– a standing animal, a tree, a portal and an architectural form. The sculpture was erected in the Thompson courtyard before the building was completed in 1985. Pritzker’s office said they would announce plans for the sculpture’s relocation once they were finalized. In 2022, the Chicago Sun-Times reported the sculpture would move to 115 S. LaSalle St., the former site of BMO Harris Bank. Later, the outlet reported a potential relocation site at the Art Institute. Now, the monument’s future seems unclear.
“We’ve been watching these really magnificent works of art that were once part of the reason these buildings were allowed to build to a certain height or have a certain area being removed, and that is of great concern to us,” Miller said.
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