Miró's Chicago (The Sun, The Moon, and One Star)

This guide to Miro's Chicago sculpture traces sixteen years of stalled ambition, from Bruce Graham convincing Joan Miro to design a piece for this plaza in the nineteen sixties, to the Brunswick Corporation quietly backing out once it saw the cost of casting it. You'll hear how Pablo Picasso's rival sculpture at Daley Plaza got built without hesitation while Miro's design sat on a shelf, and how a stockbroker's pitch to a new mayor finally moved it. Listen for what it took to get half a million dollars raised, dollar for dollar, before a single bolt went up.