Meanwhile, back at the other local public-art fiasco, the People Project, a notice just arrived in the mail announcing a mannequin-liquidation sale. With 180 people figures cluttering the streets over the 12-county bistate region, each supported by an undercarriage of "unvarnished poplar," it turns out there are 200 of these mannequins left over. When the Regional Arts Commission and Focus St. Louis got together in this wild display of public-art exuberance, they estimated 400 mannequins would get decorated by local "creative agents" (which is what they call artists) and paid for by private and corporate sponsors (at approximately $5,000 per head) and installed all over -- from Wentzville to O'Fallon, from... More >>>