The Toronto Globe and Mail discusses the local decision to declare Richard Serra’s Shift a protected landmark:

In a surprise move, councillors for the Township of King have voted in favour of granting heritage status to an outdoor installation erected in the municipality in the early 1970s by the famed U.S. minimalist sculptor Richard Serra.

Meeting Monday evening in a packed council chamber 50 kilometres north of Toronto, councillors, in a 6-1 vote, agreed to a motion from King Mayor Margaret Black calling for the preparation of a notice of intention that will define the Serra installation, called Shift, and its associated lands as a protected cultural landscape under the Ontario Heritage Act.Continue Reading