Fluid Movement: Janet Echelman and the Shaping of Urban Space

The post office might pride itself on its ability to endure rain, sleet, snow, and wind, but public sculptures don’t care much for the elements. Except if they’re the work of artist Janet Echelman, a New York- and Boston-based sculptor who creates monumental public works out of diaphanous, flexible nets that are meant to move and change shape over time. On view through March 2 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge is a new exhibition of three of Echelman’s recent projects, including her controversial