The 376-foot sculpture was commissioned by Johnson, then London's Mayor, for the 2012 Olympics, and he had hoped that it would become London's answer to the Eiffel Tower (7 million annual visitors) or the Statue of Liberty (over 4 million). But Orbit never even cracked the 200,000-visitor mark " not even after it was bailed […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM on August 23, 2019