There is, of course, so much fine public art that it's hard to know where to start: from the St Mark's Horses in Venice to Nelson's Column to the Colosseum & Forum in Rome to the fountains in the Villa d'Este Gardens in Tivoli to the Leaning Tower of Pisa to the Daley Plaza Picasso in Chicago to SF's Bay Bridge & Golden Gate to London's Albert Bridge to the American Radiator Building in Bryant Park NY to all the sculpture round the Piazza dllea Signoria & Ghiberti's Baptistry doors in Florence .... & all these are things I have been privileged enough actually to have seen with my own eyes. And one could go on & on & on.

But, while here, let's hear it for the London Eye. & shed a tear for the misfortune that Thomas Heatherwick's "B Of The Bang" installation for Manchester Commonwealth Games turned out to be hazardous [the spikes fell offr & could have killed someone if they had had the misfortune to be passing at the wrong time] and had to be dismantled -- one of the greatest while it lasted though!

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