Such monumental works require outsize sites that can accommodate them. Serra's history with site-specific work has been mixed, to say the least. After a firestorm of protest from both office workers and art critics, followed by a prolonged legal battle, his Tilted Arc of 1981—a long, curved wall of steel nicknamed "The Berlin Wall of Foley Square" and described by Grace Glueck in the New York Times (purchase required) as "one of the ugliest pieces of public art in the city"—was removed from its designated site on a plaza in lower Manhattan in 1989. (Maya Lin's strikingly similar Vietnam Veterans Memorial, constructed the year after Tilted Arc, survived initial criticism to become perhaps the most-loved of all American monuments.) In his angry article following the dismantling of Tilted Arc, Serra, Minimalist turned Maximalist, quoted one of Charles Olson's Maximus Poems: "It is not bad/ to be pissed off/ where there is any condition imposed, by whomever." Serra, more serene at 68, will have better luck with Band, an undulating ribbon of steel more than 70 feet long that will greet visitors as they enter Renzo Piano's new building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Its encompassing waves and ripples will make for an amazing entryway: disorienting, shape-changing, mind-expanding.