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Antipodes (sculpture)

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is a 6-foot high version of the Hirshhorn sculpture that was created in 1992 which was purchased by art collectors Gilbert and Ann Kinney. The small piece was displayed on the terrace of the Kinney home and upon moving the couple donated the piece to the Hirshhorn. In 1997 the
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This sculpture consists of two copper curved pieces attached to a piece of petrified wood by steel bands. The "scrolls" have letters punched into them, one piece is in English and the other piece is "coded" in
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for the Neuberger Biennial. After the Biennial, Sanborn traded the large piece for the smaller version to the Hirshhorn, hence it now residing outside the Washington-based museum. The smaller version of
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240 cm × 190 cm × 66 cm (96 in × 75 in × 26 in)
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code is in four parts, three have been solved. However, select differences do exist between the text seen on
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The Cyrillic side has a large amount of text from another of Sanborn's pieces,
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operations. The English side of the sculpture repeats the text seen on
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Main Page - a page that discusses the cryptology behind the work
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has since been sold to a private collector in California via
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Jim Sanborn
Copper
petrified wood
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Washington, D.C.
United States
Coordinates
38°53′16.65″N 77°1′21.22″W / 38.8879583°N 77.0225611°W / 38.8879583; -77.0225611
Smithsonian Institution
American
Jim Sanborn
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Washington, DC
United States
Cyrillic
Neuberger Museum of Art
L.A. Louver
Kryptos
CIA
KGB
covert
Cyrillic Projector
Proper Right/Back
Proper Left
Label
Cyrillic Projector
Cryptanalysis
Kryptos
List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2

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