Were the ropes to fail, the granite obelisk would violently smash against the ground and crack. The first challenge was to secure an obelisk, which the ancients traditionally sculpted from a ...

Narrator 1: 7–0. Broken Obelisk. Made between 1963 and 1967 by American artist Barnett Newman, 1905–1970. Cor–ten steel, in two parts, overall twenty–five feet five inches high by ten feet six inches ...