The New York Times has an odd gimmick of a story today about the unfinished Richard Serra sculpture the paper is shocked to discover being stored outside in the Bronx. The story doesn’t make clear where the Times expects several tons of steel to be stored but the thrust of the story is simple shock of seeing work outside of its heroic context.

Art storage is big business in New York, and there are expansive spaces in places like the Brooklyn Navy Yard. But the art is generally stored inside — not in a lot where cranes are parked.Continue Reading