Pamela Council set a deadline and said a prayer. It had been nearly seven months since the artist’s monument to survivors of the pandemic first appeared in Times Square, with its carapace of 400,000 hand-painted acrylic nails enshrining a bubbling fountain where visitors could reflect on persevering through Covid-19.
But when the artist’s commissioned exhibition with Times Square Arts ended in December, and the 18-foot-tall grotto was…