Public sculpture going wrong is commonplace. ‘ Cloud Gate intends to reflect the sky, but ours reflects the ground,’ Ma Jun, a spokesperson from the Karamay tourism bureau has stated, before adding, ‘You can’t say we’re not allowed to build a round sculpture because there already is a round one.’ From this point of view, originality in sculpture is a flawed concept, an idea echoed perhaps in the defence that the Chinese have put up against Kapoor. The work has existed since then in various casts as a copy without an original. The work was not cast during the artist’s lifetime and the first bronze of it was made three years after Rodin’s death. Krauss discusses Rodin’s The Gates of Hell, a public sculpture that was commissioned and then cancelled. Perhaps Judge Guilford had been mulling over the implications of Rosalind Krauss’s seminal essay ‘The Originality of the Avant-Garde’. However, in an odd twist to that case, US District Judge Andrew Guilford ruled against the prosecution’s argument that the fakes be destroyed and decreed that the new works be attributed to Raimondi, thus creating four new Raimondis against the artist’s wishes. The sculptor John Raimondi has received damages of $640,000 from the Russian billionaire Igor Olenicoff as the latter made four unauthorised copies of sculptures by Raimondi (manufactured, unsurprisingly, in China) and displayed them publicly. The American court judgement also concerned plagiarism.