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This Was a Good Sculpture

Until last week, a big electric-blue sculpture by Joel Shapiro sat next to the Kennedy Center. Boxy and rigid but seemingly weightless, Blue looked like a clumsy person who’d been swept by a breeze into an accidental pirouette. Shapiro called the metalwork a “celebration of possibility.” Some people thought it looked like Gumby. I loved it. The leaders of the Kennedy Center—and there is really just one leader of the…