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The Crowd – People on their lunch hour walk past the sculpture in front of the James R. Thompson Center like it's not even there; such is the power of familiarity. Business people munch their sandwiches, and the occasional child runs through it. – – But is it Art? – It's 29 feet tall and made up of about 10 tons of white fiberglass sticking up from the pavement in four different groupings. Ugly and papier-mâché-like, it makes for a funny, bizarre contrast with the mighty, imposing glass edifice of the building looming humorlessly right over it.…