Hudson Yards Adorned With Art to Last Beyond `Anyone's Lifetime'
- Frank Stella, Jaume Plensa are creating works to adorn lobbies
- Ross sees sculpture as ‘something that’s a lot more powerful’
Billionaire Stephen Ross didn’t hire an adviser to select artists for the nation’s largest private development. He made the call himself.
The Related Cos. chairman, whose $25 billion Hudson Yards will be officially inaugurated in March, is filling his giant blank canvas by tapping artists including Frank Stella, Jaume Plensa and Joel Shapiro to create large-scale sculptures that will adorn New York’s newest skyscrapers. The biggest and most expensive piece is Thomas Heatherwick’s $150 million "Vessel” -- a 16-story latticework with 2,500 individual steps and 80 landings.