We’ve been waiting for successful, rights-conscious artist Amish Kapoor to unveil his 1400-ton ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower, UK’s largest public artwork and there it is in London, looking like an “oil rig twisting on itself” or a broken roller coaster. The real thing (right) is just a bit less impressive than its digital rendering (left). Womp womp? Just like the giant worm he packed inside the Grand Palais in Paris, such giant things require swarms of comparably tiny, tiny people to highlight its size and gusto. Peek-squeak “wows!” optional.

“It is important that we stick together,” says very large-scale sculptor and outspoken Ai Weiwei-supporter Anish Kapoor, dedicating his latest, biggest work ever to the missing artist. The 150,000 square foot Leviathan coils through the Grand Palais in Paris as part of the Monumenta 2011 exhibit. Visitors can climb inside its gut-red chambers, just as if the blobby giant ate them. (Photos: Reuters/Monumenta)