After achieving healthy bottom-lines, corporations, institutions and individuals have turned their attention to burnishing their image by sponsoring projects of artistic merit in the public space, augmenting those undertaken by the state. Modest or mega in scale, for self-glorification or out of social consciousness, public art is good for business because it gives back to the community that sustains it in a virtuous circle. Sundial on Century Avenue en route to the Science & Technology Museum The writing’s on the wall Henry Moore inspired chrome-finished statue at Thumb Plaza Elephant statue on a coiled trunk Stone slugs and snails at the entrance to Xintiandi Style Abstract expressionist sculpture near a highway flyover Female form balancing on a sphere Fluid metal sculpture outside the Shanghai Library, suggesting  perhaps , freeing your mind with books This statue  in a city park  pays  homage to playwright-poet   Tian Han,