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July 23, 2008

Kapoor Nabs Major Public Project
(Independent, July 11, 2008)

Sculptor Anish Kapoor has teamed up with structural designer Cecil Balmond to create five colossal works that will stand as the largest public-art project in the world. The £15 million Giants will reside in England's Tees Valley, and the Turner Prize-winning artist expects to complete the first massive piece — measuring 164 feet high and 360 feet long — by next summer. The work will weigh 66 tons and will be built with steel and cable, reflecting the industrial history of its Middlesbrough home. Not everyone was happy with the heady news, however; one critic wrote that the project represented "idiotic vanity" on the part of the planners. In related news, architects Herzog & de Meuron have enlisted Kapoor to create a monumental public sculpture for a new building in New York.

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