## Nicholas Galanin "interrupts sightline" of Gateway Arch with animal-hide sculpture ## Share: Alaska-based artist Nicholas Galanin has created a metal sculpture resembling a stretched animal hide in front of the St Louis Gateway Arch to challenge "narratives of westward expansion" for art festival Counterpublic. Land is Never a Gateway (Sightline/Lifeline) is located in front of the Eero Saarinen-designed monument, on a small sidewalk plot. From there, visitors can crouch down and look up at the piece, which is meant to create an optical illusion with the gateway. When viewed from below,…