{"id":46,"date":"2015-10-12T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=46"},"modified":"2016-01-09T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T20:51:16","slug":"dark-star-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/dark-star-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Star Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a sculptural land-art installation in Rosslyn, Virginia by Nancy Holt. Completed in 1984, it was the first major commissioned public art project in the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"description clearfix\">\n<p>The sculpture, which\u00a0replaced a run-down gas station, consists of five spheres, two pools, four steel poles, a stairway, a large tunnel for passage, a small tunnel for viewing and plantings.<\/p>\n<p>Every year on August 1, at 9:30 a.m., visitors arrive at the 0.4 acre park to witness the convergence\u00a0of shadows. Holt, chose Aug.\u00a01 to commemorate the day in 1860 when William Henry Ross purchased the land that became Rosslyn, according to Angela A. Adams, the director of Arlington Public Art.\u00a0The park\u2019s large spheres are designed to resemble fallen, extinguished stars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"sidebar sidebar-primary widget-area\">\n<h3 class=\"gizmos-container third-width-gizmos\">\u00a0External Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/parks.arlingtonva.us\/locations\/dark-star-park\/\">Dark Star Park website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a sculptural land-art installation in Rosslyn, Virginia by Nancy Holt. Completed in 1984, it was the first major commissioned public art project in the United States. The sculpture, which\u00a0replaced a run-down gas station, consists of five spheres, two pools, four steel poles, a stairway, a large tunnel for passage, a small tunnel for viewing and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/dark-star-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dark Star Park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,14],"tags":[47,21,33,37],"coauthors":[103],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modules","category-projects","category-public-art-and-spatial-politics","tag-land-art","tag-nancy-holt","tag-public-art","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}