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Old Posted Sep 4, 2022, 3:38 PM
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Bed Bath & Beyond CFO plunges to death at New York's Jenga tower

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Old Posted Sep 4, 2022, 5:37 PM
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Ugh awful, what a rough way to go and also terrible for the people who have to clean it up.

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The police statement did not provide further details on the circumstances leading to Arnal's death and said the New York City Medical Examiner's Office would determine the cause of death. Bed Bath and Beyond confirmed his death in a press statement on Sunday but gave no details.
Maybe hitting concrete from an 800+ foot high skyscraper was the cause of death? Better double check though...
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bean news — with pics on the link below:



The Bean will be finished before the end of the year

November 3, 2022 • Arts & Culture


Anish Kapoor’s silver bean, which has been under construction at 56 Leonard — the Jenga building — since February 2019, will be finished before the end of the year.

I am not sure this will give the residents above and across the street much comfort — the jack hammering lately has been a bit rough — but it is exciting to hear.

The sculptor’s team installed the first of 45 sections back inNovember 2019. And while things seemed to be chugging along (the sections were stored locally and installed piece by piece), covid put a halt on all of it. It remained half finished until September 2021, when the team was able to travel from the UK to get the job done.


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https://tribecacitizen.com/2022/11/0...d-of-the-year/
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Old Posted Dec 10, 2022, 3:00 PM
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hard at work yesterday
at the beanery —


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Old Posted Dec 10, 2022, 3:29 PM
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Old Posted Feb 5, 2023, 2:37 AM
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yay!

we’ve bean waiting, but at long, long last after many delays it happened —

bean reveal:


New York's long-awaited 'bean' sculpture unveiled

Published 3rd February 2023


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Old Posted Feb 5, 2023, 5:20 PM
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more baby beanie news & pix via the local tribeca citizen:


The Bean, revealed
February 1, 2023 • Arts & Culture, Photo Essay

More back story here, but for your viewing pleasure, some reflections (get it?) on the Anish Kapoor sculpture dba The Bean at 56 Leonard. An official name will be revealed later this season. (Taking suggestions in the comments.) Thanks to J. for the video reveal from above.


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https://tribecacitizen.com/2023/02/0...bean-revealed/

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Old Posted Feb 8, 2023, 3:36 PM
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there has bean more news — including what took so long:



What Do New Yorkers Think of Anish Kapoor’s “Mini-Bean”?

Manhattan now has its own, downscaled version of the artist’s famous Chicago sculpture, oddly squished under a luxury condo tower.

Elaine Velie February 3, 2023



The shiny public artwork has been four years in the making: Construction began in 2019, but the pandemic ground it to a halt. The British installation team was able to return to the city and resume work in September 2021, but the project soon encountered another setback — the sun caused the unfinished sculpture to unevenly heat, and it ruptured.

The project was incredibly labor intensive: 38 metal plates were precisely cut to fit next to one another, attached to an internal support system, welded together, and then polished to create a mirror-like surface.


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I feel like this sculpture will be vandalized within a few months time. The Cloud Gate in Chicago has the protection of being in a high-traffic and widely exposed setting frequented by tourists, while the Manhattan bean is tucked away in a shadowy corner with a very infrequent pedestrian presence. It'll be extremely easy for someone to just walk by and throw up their tag unnoticed.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2023, 11:57 PM
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The Manhattan bean is on a major Manhattan avenue, in the middle of Tribeca, at the base of a giant luxury tower, across from a law school and subway station, in an area with lots of day and night pedestrian traffic. And obviously it will draw many additional visitors.

Anyways, if someone wants to tag a sculpture, so what? It can be cleaned. And what does that have to do with pedestrian traffic? Times Square has more pedestrian traffic than anywhere in the developed world, and has graffiti.
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^ And Mariah Carey lives across the street...



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