Tilting at windmills album features the song "Windmills." The first lyric reads, "I spend too much time raiding windmills We go side by side laughing until it's right...". The lyric may reflect how Don Quixote, true to his romantic tendencies, puts Dulcinea on a pedestal. As such, the reality of the character Dulcinea does not correspond to Don Quixote's fantasy of her. The US punk band ALL, on their 1988 album Allroy Sez, released a track titled "Don Quixote" written by singer/songwriter Dave Smalley featuring the line "tilting at windmills". Australian folk rock band Weddings Parties Anything released the album Roaring Days in
Tilted Arc Tilted Arc Tilted Arc was a controversial public art installation by Richard Serra, displayed in Foley Federal Plaza in Manhattan from 1981 to 1989. The art work consisted of a 120-foot long, 12-foot high solid, unfinished plate of rust-covered COR-TEN steel. Advocates characterized it as an important work by a well-known artist that transformed the space and advanced the concept of sculpture, whereas critics focused on its perceived ugliness and saw it as ruining the site. Following an acrimonious public debate, the sculpture was removed in 1989 as the result of a Federal lawsuit, and has never been publicly displayed