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Thursday, 17 January 13<br />
This public-commissioned was controversial<br />
from <strong>the</strong> outset. In a court hearing was held<br />
in 1985, in which 122 people testified in<br />
favour of keeping <strong>the</strong> work, <strong>and</strong> 58 to<br />
remove it. Because <strong>the</strong> work was sitespecific,<br />
Serra argued in court that "To<br />
remove <strong>the</strong> work is to destroy it.” A jury<br />
decided 4 against 1 to have <strong>the</strong> work<br />
removed. The work was finally removed over<br />
night in March 198<strong>9.</strong><br />
Richard Serra (1939)<br />
Titled Arc, 1981