Photo: Spitting Art

Don't be insulted. The massive animated portraits in Chicago's Millennium Park spit at you because they like you. Playful, sure, but also somehow serene, like enormous televised Buddhas, delighted by their own absurdity. A spitting fountain is funny and forgetful when it's ankle-high, but when it blinks and moves and stretches two stories overhead, it has enough weight to divide over whimsy and power alike.

Photo by Will & Sara Hindmarch