This 23-foot, 35,000 pound bronze sculpture Untitled (Lamp/Bear) by New York-based Swiss artist Urs Fischer is being installed now in the plaza outside the Seagram Building at 52nd Street. This button-eyed  yellow monster is here to, allegedly, “brighten up” our day, but from a head-on angle, it looks a bit like Teddy was executed in Old Sparky. No? (Photos: Will Femia)

German zookeepers are baffled why this Spectacled Bear, a South American species traditionally found in the wild not a cage, has lost nearly all of its fur. |NYT|

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