{"id":8228,"date":"2017-02-24T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T18:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8228"},"modified":"2017-02-26T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T18:44:00","slug":"would-have-been-spectacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/24\/would-have-been-spectacular\/","title":{"rendered":"Would have been spectacular&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-these-10-unrealized-artworks-would-have-been-spectacular\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Artsy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>These 10 Unrealized Artworks Would Have Been Spectacular<\/h1>\n<p>BY ABIGAIL CAIN<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net\/?resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7Rk4Hfxt4_DHV9eeY1TxuA%252FHigh%2BLine%2BPlinth_RH-30.jpg&amp;width=1100&amp;quality=95\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Image by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Jeff Koons. Courtesy of Friends of the High Line.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Koons,\u00a0<i>Train<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far, all attempts to realize Koons\u2019s 161-foot-tall sculpture have run out of steam. The American artist first proposed the work\u2014a full-size replica of a 1940s locomotive, suspended nose-down from a crane while periodically spinning its wheels and belching smoke\u2014to French billionaire art collector Fran\u00e7ois Pinault in the early 2000s. But when Pinault\u2019s plans for a museum on the Seine fell through in 2005, Koons\u2019s idea was once again up for grabs. Both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/lacma\" target=\"_blank\">LACMA<\/a>\u00a0and Friends of the High Line expressed interest in the massive work; in fact, LACMA spent more than $2 million in feasibility studies,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2012\/03\/lacma-or-high-line-jeff-koons-train.html\" target=\"_blank\">finally determining<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0<i>Train<\/i>\u00a0\u201cwas safe, possible, and more complicated than anyone thought.\u201d The High Line picked up the project in 2008 and again in 2012, only to see it derail both times. The likely culprit: an estimated cost of $25 million to $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-these-10-unrealized-artworks-would-have-been-spectacular\" target=\"_blank\">click to view rest of list at artsy.net<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Artsy These 10 Unrealized Artworks Would Have Been Spectacular BY ABIGAIL CAIN Image by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Jeff Koons. Courtesy of Friends of the High Line. Jeff Koons,\u00a0Train So far, all attempts to realize Koons\u2019s 161-foot-tall sculpture have run out of steam. The American artist first proposed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}