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Keyspan Gas Tank
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The tank, decorated with giant rainbow-colored stripes, is the world's largest copyrighted artwork by Corita Kent. It's also the only obvious piece of permanent liquefied natural gas infrastructure in South Boston and Dorchester. It gathered some controversy over an alleged depiction of Ho Chi Minh's face (visible in the left side of the blue stripe). Keyspan has always claimed that Ho Chi Minh was a coincidence; some suspect Kent, an anti-war activist, included Ho in her 1971 opus as a subtle protest. There used to be two tanks there. In 1992, Keyspan tore down the Kent tank and hired painters (including at least one Vietnamese refugee) to repaint the mural on the other one. One of the things they did was to give the profile a more rounded, less Ho-ish nose; the company claims this was truer to Kent's original design.