On the morning of April 6, 2015, visitors to Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park spotted an unexpected update to a monument erected in 1908. Atop one of the pillars of the long-neglected memorial to Revolutionary War patriots appeared a monumental bust of Edward Snowden. The four-foot-tall sculpture was expertly wrought in a material that resembled antique bronze, but it didn’t last long. Shortly after dawn, police covered the bust with a tarp and took it to the local precinct, where it remained in custody until it was reclaimed by a couple local artists. (The NYPD fined them fifty dollars for being in the park after hours.) Next month the bust returns to Brooklyn under less furtive circumstances. The sculpture of Snowden – which was conceived by Jeff Greenspan and Andrew Tider and fabricated by Doyle Trankina – will be included in the second installment of a three-part exhibition of political art at the Brooklyn Art Museum…. Essay by Jonathon Keats.

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