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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...
View ArticleDe 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....
View ArticleCanadians 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...
View ArticleChirlane 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 —...
View ArticleMassive seesaws take over Broadway in the Garment District
Nighttime is the best time to rock these illuminated teeter-totters
View ArticleMysterious 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...
View ArticleInside 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...
View ArticleLatest 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...
View ArticleCentral 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...
View ArticleTimes 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.
View ArticleGiant 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.
View ArticleCharlottesville Robert E. Lee statue to be melted down for public art project
The controversial statue featured prominently in the 2017 Unite the Right rally
View ArticlePhallic-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.
View ArticleTribeca’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."
View ArticleNYC kids target Putin statue at Central Park playground
Russian President Vladimir Putin is apparently making enemies everywhere.
View ArticleMan 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.
View ArticleWhy ‘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...
View ArticleMassive clown heads in downtown Boston freak out tourists: ‘Very creepy’
It's not the place to be clowning around.
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