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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: Art to Sit On
In this review of new exhibitions and publications of the artist Scott Burton, writer Jarrett Earnest writes about Burton’s radical artistic vision, and mentions that “the artist Oscar Tuazon, in collaboration with…the NYC AIDS Memorial, will unveil a revitalized version of Burton’s final public work, created for the fishing piers in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, in 1994—a combination of perforated steel benches, wooden ottomans, light posts, and wind vanes…”
FRIEZE: Scott Burton Has His Day
This review of Scott Burton: Shape Shift at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis mentions Oscar Tuazon’s upcoming Scott Burton project to be installed at the New York City AIDS Memorial next autumn.
NEW YORK TIMES: A Dying Artist Left His Legacy to MoMA. Today He’s Almost Forgotten
The Los Angeles-based artist Oscar Tuazon, together with the gallery Kasmin and the New York City AIDS Memorial, is breathing new life into one of Burton’s final public artworks: an array of lights, flag poles, weathervanes and ottomans on the fishing piers in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn…Tuazon plans to transform them into a new work, “Eternal Flame for Scott Burton,” which is expected to be installed at the NYC AIDS Memorial in fall 2025.