At a glance, it looks like a work in progress, an empty plinth for a memorial still missing its heroic bronze.
Instead, 'Public Figures' is inverted: The sculpture standing outside the National Museum of Asian Art puts the figures on the bottom, underneath the plinth.
Not one but scores of sculpted figures appear to support the pillar, an entire polity holding aloft the notion of monumentality.
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