The black and white Jean Dubuffet sculpture outside the James R. Thompson Center never excited Chicago as did the Daley Center Picasso, nor did it ever garner the mass appeal of Millennium Park’s Cloud Gate.
But the 29-foot tall fiberglass structure always deserved better than it got, as it was too often tagged by graffiti — or serving as a makeshift outdoor urinal — since its 1984 debut outside 100 W. Randolph St.
