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It wasn't until 2018, 46 years after her tragic death at age 48, that she was given an official obituary in The New York Times as part of the publication's ' Overlooked' series of obituaries for people who had been overlooked at the time of their death.ДЄn excerpt of Arbus's obituary in 2018 reads: Arbus herself hasn't been discussed enough, given her contributions to photography and art. It's unfortunately rare that a female artist is honored with a public sculpture. Of the statue, Public Art Fund said, 'Wearing's personal tribute to another artist offers a new way to think about and present a public monument while prompting us to reflect on who gets chosen to be the subject of a public sculpture.' In 2008, Wearing created a photograph, ' Me as Arbus,' in which Wearing dressed up convincingly as Arbus. Wearing did research and worked from many source photographs to create the final bronze statue. To create the statue, Gillian Wearing used a lost-wax casting process. 'If you scrutinize reality close enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.' It includes a plaque that includes a quote from Arbus herself. The life-size statue is presented at street level without a base. 'We also see a modest, unassuming figure, standing at the entrance to Central Park, recognizable by the most distinctive attribute of her public self: her Rolleiflex camera.' 'In her bronze 'Diane Arbus,' we see the posthumous homage to a pioneering artist by another from a different time and place,' says Public Art Fund Artistic and Executive Director Nicholas Baume. Freedman Plaza in Central Park in New York City until August 14, 2022. The statue is presented by Public Art Fund and will be in Doris C. British conceptual artist Gillian Wearing has created a bronze statue honoring the late photographer Diane Arbus.

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