Though not always beloved in the town where one of his champions, arts patron Emily Pulitzer, keeps trying to convince the locals, sculptor Richard Serra is riding high off the well-received installation of his new work, "Promenade," exhibited during May and June in Paris' Grand Palais exhibition hall. Five 56-foot-tall, 73-ton slabs of steel were erected in the hall's expansive atrium. All in a day's work for the artist, who was recently honored as a Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters, a tribute awarded by the French Academy.

Posted under People by Amanda Doyle on Wed., Jul 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM