How a 13-ton piece of public art no one wanted found a Minnesota home
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How a 13-ton piece of public art no one wanted found a Minnesota home

2025-08-04

A scuplture called “The Scroll” once had a prominent spot in downtown Minneapolis. It stood in front of the old central library for more than 4 decades. Alicia Eler, the Minnesota Star Tribune's visual art reporter and critic, joins host Erica Pearson to tell the story of how the sculpture narrowly missed ending up in a scrap heap when the library building was demolished to make way for a new one.

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