The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, March 16, 2004  

THE IRISH MEMORIAL AT PENN’S LANDING
We Deserve Better Than This

I don’t know if Inga Saffron, architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, is large and muscular or small and waiflike or something in between.

But I do know she writes some of the most simultaneously intelligent and accessible architectural criticism appearing in the general-interest media in America today.

And I also know she, no matter her size, can, with her bare hands, or at least with words alone, single-handedly yet figuratively demolish the disappointing, almost insulting, several-ton bronze sculpture by Glenna Goodacre known as the Irish Memorial at Penn’s Landing, located near the Delaware River in Philadelphia, into a pulp of peat and potatoes and other hackneyed symbols, a fate the trite and tired sculpture so poorly deserves.

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