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Miami's Hottest Piece of Public Art is a Derelict Piano

Chalk up another one for the power of public art. Apparently, a busted-up old piano just up and appeared on a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay, and the haunting piece of public art has quickly become the area's hottest site to see. Granted, you need a boat to get out to it, but if you can...the piano is there, slowly sinking and just waiting for you to twinkle the ivories in the oddest location.

The creation is actually purposefully done in the name of art, as the "artist" is a 16-year-old local whom the Daily Mail calls a "teenage prankster," even though he only did this after some actual pranksters had burnt the piano and lowered it into a canal. He and his father retrieved the instrument and gave it this new home, one that's not the object of much touristic attention.

In one way, it's littering. But in another, it's just the sort of positive PR boost Miami is needing right now.

[Photo: Getty/Daily Mail]