No, this is a giant bear with a lamp on its head, a piece of art from a Swiss artist Urs Fischer that will be displayed in midtown Manhattan for five months while the people of New York City decide how to get rid of it.
The bear, which is 23 feet high and weighs in at 35,000 pounds, is a bright shade of yellow with a black lamp affixed to its head.
Yes, it's art. No, you can't afford it.
This large furry friend with black button eyes is being auctioned off, of course, as are many great works of art, be they teddy bears or not, by Christie's, the venerable auctioneer that knows a thing or two about soup cans, comic books, and sculpture gardens.
The piece, which goes by the name Untitled Lamp/Bear, is expected to sell for $9 million, as reported by Christie's after officials there ran some sort of random fee-generation software subroutine to discover how much someone or some group of people would actually pay for such a thing.
You might want to pay attention to who buys it because the lamp has a light in it that — you guessed it — lights up, basking all beneath it in a rosy glow of, well, light.
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