THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: Art to Sit On

For the past forty years people have enjoyed chairs, tables, and benches in public places across North America without realizing they are part of Scott Burton’s radical artistic vision.

...Next autumn the artist Oscar Tuazon, in collaboration with Dave Harper of the NYC AIDS memorial, will unveil a revitalized version of Burton’s final public work, created for the fishing piers in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, in 1994—a combination of perforated steel benches, wooden ottomans, light posts, and wind vanes—which was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012...