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    Jimmie Durham

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    image (c) Exit Art, New York
    The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1989
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 244 x 144 x 137 cm
    Moose skull, wood, antler, paint, metal

    "In 1985 a young British sculptor named Nicholas Fairplay had been brought to Manhattan Island to carve stone for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The intention for the Cathedral is that upon completion it will be the World’s Largest Cathedral, and we may assume that at peak production it will have an ever-changing billboard out front which will read, 'Over One Million Souls Saved.'" [full text here].

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