at least someone's making $$

Olafur Eliasson’s New York City Waterfalls...NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg has wasted no time in spreading the news that the project was a phenomenal economic success, trumpeting that it made the city an estimated $69 million, above the initial projection of $55 million...artnetnews

attack of the giant handbag installation

The Chanel Mobile Art exhibit (by Zaha Hadid) opens today in Central Park...VIDEO via thecut

Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy - ny times by roberta smith

But over the past 15 years public sculpture — that is, static, often figurative objects of varying sizes in outdoor public spaces — has become one of contemporary art’s more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one.