I really prefer none, but if I have to choose, I guess I like my Tom Otterness playground sculpture tiny, variegated, slightly political, and in Battery Park City.
And in that respect, Larry Silverstein, the tiny real estate developer, and I differ.
Larry went bonkers for this gigantic bronze playground structure Otterness designed for a public commission competition [he lost], and had one installed in the garden of the desolate rental towers at 42nd & 12th, in the middle of BF Intrepid Chinese UN Mission Hell's Kitchen Nowhere. More power to him, I guess.
Inside Art [nyt]
Playground, 2007, bronze, edition of 6 [tomostudio.com]
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