Whose Art Is It?
Jane Kramer’s classic 1992 story about the sculptor John Ahearn, whose statues of his Bronx neighbors launched a debate over political correctness and who has the right to make art for the city.
"It could be argued that the South Bronx bronzes fit right into the neighborhood." Jane Kramer on John Ahearn's statues removed from the precinct—public art as battleground, asking whose neighborhood, whose art, whose story gets told.