Conrad’s Sculpture ‘Chain Reaction’ Hit as ’40 Years Late’

Just like his cartoons, Paul Conrad’s mushroom cloud of chains (sculpture) has all the subtlety of a hockey puck between the eyes. And his efforts to find it a home were equally cloddish. There’s something undignified about a Pulitzer Prize winner trying to foist his work off from town to town by convincing people of how important it is. If it was important, people would beat a path to him. His idea seems about 40 years too late.

STEVE FOSTER

Los Angeles