"Since the system has been installed, life has dramatically improved for residents," says Weissferdt.
In 1991, the artist John Ahearn installed life-size sculptures of three denizens of his devastated South Bronx community.
Barneys New York installed life-size silicon replicas of six Hood By Air models in its four windows on Madison Avenue.
The openings form part of a year of celebrations that will also include a collaboration with artist Antony Gormley, who is installing life-size statues at five Landmark Trust properties in Suffolk, Dorset, Scotland, Warwickshire and Lundy Island.
This involves installing life-support systems and developing the necessary emergency procedures to protect astronauts should anything go wrong on launch.
As a result, many handguns don't contain easily installed life-saving safety features. .
Two years ago this week, activist art collective INDECLINE installed life-sized statues of Donald Trump in the nude complete with a gargantuan paunch, varicose veins, and an acorn-sized micro-peen in five cities across the US.
The "LIBERTY?" sign sparked buzz at Glendale City Hall, with some officials wondering if it was the work of a Los Angeles artist who had installed life-size cutouts of actors from spaghetti westerns on hills overlooking Glendale.
As imposing as it is, never before has the entrance hall of the Getty Museum looked as dramatic and impressive as it does now, with the newly installed life-size marble sculpture of the Sleeping Fawn by 18th century French artist Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762).
His most personal and, in hindsight, reckless gesture of homage was to install a life-size golden statue of Cleopatra/Isis in the temple of his family forum, next to the statue of Venus Genetrix, from whom the Julian clan claimed descent.
Amy Winehouse's status as a cultural icon looks set to be canonised as plans to install a life-sized statue of the "Back to Black" singer in her native Camden are approved by the local council in the same week the Jewish Museum announces an exhibition dedicated to her.
