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Why Brooklyn’s newest public art statue makes some think of ISIS

What’s the point? A new public sculpture in Downtown Brooklyn of a massive arm with the index finger pointed skyward is drawing a wide range of interpretations as to its meaning — with some observers...

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De Blasio backs down, ‘Charging Bull’ statue to stay put for now

Mayor Bill de Blasio reined in his plans to move the famed Charging Bull statue from its longtime place of honor on Broadway to the New York Stock Exchange after its creator protested the relocation....

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Canadians cringe at $4.8M chandelier over homeless encampment

It’s not even real crystal, but it’s apparently worth $4.8 million. And the item in question — a massive glimmering chandelier — has optics-sensitive Canucks cringing. The 14-by-21-foot, roughly...

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Chirlane McCray nixed Mother Cabrini statue – not cultural affairs commissioner

“Culture” had nothing to do with this widely panned City Hall decision. First lady Chirlane McCray and former Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen — not outgoing Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl —...

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Massive seesaws take over Broadway in the Garment District

Nighttime is the best time to rock these illuminated teeter-totters

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Mysterious Union Square digital counter now even more confusing

Oh, well now it’s clear! Manhattan’s inscrutable Metronome digital clock — which for decades has confounded Union Square passersby uncertain of what it’s actually measuring — now tracks the amount of...

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Inside the wild few days at Utah’s mysterious monolith

Monolith planking. Helicopters full of YouTubers. Confused government officials. One of the first intrepid visitors to visit the metallic monolith that was discovered in the Utah desert described the...

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Latest mysterious monolith appears in California park, made of gingerbread

That’s the way the monolith crumbles: a gingerbread knockoff of the perplexing plinths that have popped up around the world has collapsed in San Francisco. The monolith had been found at a California...

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Central Park snow bear sculptures delight cooped-up New Yorkers

Bear-y cute snow sculptures in Central Park are melting away the winter blues and warming hearts on the Upper West Side. Artist Heide Hatry has spent every day for the past two weeks at the park’s 86th...

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Times Square’s first fountain features 400,000 acrylic fingernails

“The decorated acrylics surrounding this fountain honor the beautiful perseverance of survivors who’ve overcome all different types of trials and trauma," Pamela Council told The Post.

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Giant potato statue goes viral over phallic comparisons

A town has become the subject of lewd jokes as its new 16-foot-tall potato-inspired monument draws comparisons to the male organ.

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Charlottesville Robert E. Lee statue to be melted down for public art project

The controversial statue featured prominently in the 2017 Unite the Right rally

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Phallic-shaped ‘big potato’ statue vandalized in Cyprus

A "big potato" statue erected in a small village didn't stay up for long and police are investigating the hot potato.

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Tribeca’s $10 million ‘half bean’ sculpture nearly ready for viewing

The sculpture is the work of British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor, the creator of downtown Chicago’s Cloud Gate -- which is better known as "The Bean."

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NYC kids target Putin statue at Central Park playground

Russian President Vladimir Putin is apparently making enemies everywhere.

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Man stuns wife and neighbors with 18-foot-tall robots on front lawn

"I appreciate that we don't have a cookie cutter home," his spouse told The Post.

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Why ‘Field of Light’ is Bruce Munro’s ultimate Holiday Gift to NYC

This past week, a long-awaited artistic spectacle finally made its debut on Manhattan’s East Side — “Field of Light.” Set on vast empty plot at Freedom Plaza directly facing FDR Drive and the East...

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Massive clown heads in downtown Boston freak out tourists: ‘Very creepy’

It's not the place to be clowning around.

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For the price of subway fare, you can tour some of the city’s great...

Forget gallery walks. It's all about the gallery ride.

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