Lower Manhattan just earned a new pop-art power pose. For a short stint, you can wander past 3 World Trade Center and stumble on a bona fide Roy Lichtenstein in the wild: , one of the late icon’s most exuberant sculptural works. Think of it as a comic-book swoosh brought to life at skyscraper scale, a piece that looks like it might zip away if you blink too hard.

Lichtenstein spent his career poking fun at the very idea of artistic drama, famously lifting the language of comics, advertising and mass media into the realm of fine art. Here, he takes the primal “heroic” swipe of the paintbrush that Abstract Expressionists worshipped and flips it into something cheeky, polished and impossible to ignore.

Instead of sagely oil on canvas, you get a powder-blue aluminum arc streaked with

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