Santa Monica : Conrad Sculpture Site OKd
Santa Monica’s Arts Commission approved the corner of 14th Street and Olympic Boulevard for the installation of cartoonist Paul Conrad’s proposed statue of an atomic bomb mushroom cloud.
The statue, which has yet to be built, was turned down by Beverly Hills’ Fine Arts Committee last week.
But the Santa Monica panel voted 5-0 to recommend the site in front of Memorial Gymnasium. The offer is also scheduled to go before the city’s Recreation and Parks Commission at its meeting Thursday evening.
The next step would be to seek public input before the Santa Monica City Council considers the offer from the The Times’ editorial cartoonist.
Conrad, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, said the statue would be financed by an anonymous donor at a cost of about $250,000. Fashioned out of copper tubing and called “Chain Reaction,” it would be 26 feet high.
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