Most mall visitors probably wouldn’t expect to find a giant Möbius strip, particularly one disguised as a public bench, sprawled across a courtyard.
A shopping mall known as The Shops at Lake Avenue, just a few blocks from Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., features just such a structure (or is it a sculpture?). Created by conceptual artist and architect Vito Acconci, whose studio is in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
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