MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
To Boston now - that's where members of the Boston Art Commission voted unanimously last night to remove the city's copy of Thomas Ball's 1876 Emancipation Memorial sculpture.
CRISTELA GUERRA, BYLINE: If the job of public art is to make an impact, Boston artist Tory Bullock says the perspective of the creator is equally important.
GUERRA: A handful of people who spoke at the meeting were in favor of keeping the sculpture where it is and adding context, but Commission member Robert Freeman changed his mind after listening to two mothers in another recent virtual meeting.
GUERRA: Commission vice chair and artist Ekua Holmes says she imagines the newly emancipated people who funded this sculpture would have chosen different imagery for themselves if they'd had the choice - something more aspirational, more self-determining, something timeless.
For NPR News in Boston, I'm Cristela Guerra.