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  • The 2,717-foot-tall building was designed by the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill SOM.

    J. Michael Welton: Landscaping the Burj Khalifa J. Michael Welton 2011

  • A vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, Mr. di Suvero in 1966 designed "The Peace Tower," a 60-foot-tall, thin-steel sculpture in Los Angeles on which 400 antiwar paintings were suspended.

    America's Great Man of Steel Marc Myers 2011

  • The 18 foot-tall five-foot wide and deep metal and glass piece was titled "DNA Molecule," and it greeted visitors for the better part of four decades.

    Daniel Grant: A Secondary Market for Public Art? Daniel Grant 2011

  • The 2,717-foot-tall building was designed by the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill SOM.

    J. Michael Welton: Landscaping the Burj Khalifa J. Michael Welton 2011

  • The 2,717-foot-tall building was designed by the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill SOM.

    J. Michael Welton: Landscaping the Burj Khalifa J. Michael Welton 2011

  • Among the artworks the Fund has sponsored that were eventually sold was Roxy Paine's 50 foot-tall stainless steel tree titled "Bluff," which was installed in New York's Central Park as part of the 2002 Whitney Biennial (an upstate New York collection bought it), and Jeff Koons' 43 foot-tall steel and plants "Puppy" in 2000 at Rockefeller Center (art collector and publisher Peter Brant purchased it).

    Daniel Grant: A Secondary Market for Public Art? Daniel Grant 2011

  • Among the artworks the Fund has sponsored that were eventually sold was Roxy Paine's 50 foot-tall stainless steel tree titled "Bluff," which was installed in New York's Central Park as part of the 2002 Whitney Biennial (an upstate New York collection bought it), and Jeff Koons' 43 foot-tall steel and plants "Puppy" in 2000 at Rockefeller Center (art collector and publisher Peter Brant purchased it).

    Daniel Grant: A Secondary Market for Public Art? Daniel Grant 2011

  • Associated Press A 49-foot-tall head is set on a torso on a floating stage on Lake Constance in Austria.

    NATO's Role, Japan's Scramble, AT&T's Deal 2011

  • The 18 foot-tall five-foot wide and deep metal and glass piece was titled "DNA Molecule," and it greeted visitors for the better part of four decades.

    Daniel Grant: A Secondary Market for Public Art? Daniel Grant 2011

  • The 2,717-foot-tall building was designed by the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill SOM.

    J. Michael Welton: Landscaping the Burj Khalifa J. Michael Welton 2011

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