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Mount Rushmore
- When
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Friday 21 Nov 2008 (6:30pm)
Friday 28 Nov 2008 (6:30pm)
- Where
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Tube: Holborn, Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road
- Price
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£3
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Waldemar Januszczak's comprehensive history-of-sculpture series, first aired last month on More4, moves to the Stevenson Lecture Theatre over the coming weeks as part of Statuephilia. (Art critic Januszczak co-curated the exhibition with British Museum rising-star James Fox.) Tonight's 48-minute instalment analyses sculpture's place in society and features the sacred statues of Easter Island, a communist theme park and the strangely kitsch US national memorial Mount Rushmore. Next week, the focus moves to sculpture within nature, with Stonehenge and Andy Goldsworthy considered.
