Thousand-Pound Bronzes on the Upper West Side by Paige Williams

The sculptor Joy Brown creates enormous bronze humanoid figures, and, on a recent Monday night, nine of them arrived in the city on flatbed trucks, to be installed on the Upper West Side. The bodies, zaftig and bald, stand as high as eleven feet tall. Each weighs well over a thousand pounds. They're like Teletubbies that grew up, chilled out, lost their headgear, and took up nude sunbathing. New Yorkers would awake t…

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