Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 1:01pm

The Klan Couldn’t Have Done Better

 

The “artist” purportedly wished to show the arms only of a fairly famous picture of the Kings embracing after he won the Nobel Prize.

 

 

I rather think the “artist” is a talentless hack taking the city of Boston for a ride.  However, perhaps I am wrong.  Maybe it is an ironic commentary on the King marriage where Mrs. King found herself married to a national icon, considered a moral beacon, who routinely was unfaithful to her.  Naw, that gives coherence where there clearly is none.

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Art Deco
Sunday, January 15, AD 2023 5:08am

The Althouse commentariat was hilarious and brutal. Althouse her self was uncharacteristically blunt in trashing it.

The interesting social and cultural phenomenon of the postwar period is that people in position to make decisions about architecture and public monuments have uniformly terrible taste. This one was unusually grotesque, but keep in mind that it would have been surprising had it turned out to be anything but an eyesore.

MrsOpey
MrsOpey
Sunday, January 15, AD 2023 8:08am

Here, students, we have a 2 for one. The artist personified wokism w the holding of crap. From the side, it looks as if he is holding his head in shame, some say it captures perfectly what the African American community felt when they had their awakening

Woke can’t meme or do art

David WS
David WS
Sunday, January 15, AD 2023 8:14am

The progressive left hates MLk for what he stood and stands for.
“- a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
That has to be in part the reason this statue is a POS.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Sunday, January 15, AD 2023 8:26am

Karma

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Sunday, January 15, AD 2023 9:29am

. . .
Why not just a giant pair of hands, with chains & shackles falling off the wrist as they reached for the nobel prize?

Art Deco
Sunday, January 15, AD 2023 12:44pm

I rather think the “artist” is a talentless hack taking the city of Boston for a ride. However, perhaps I am wrong. 

Only if they approved a contract without seeing the proposed design. (Which they may have if the whole point was political patronage).

Lucille Ball grew up in Celoron, NY. The village commissioned a bronze statue of her some years back, and this is what they got.
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I don’t know if the personal and financial connection between the commissioned sculptor and the Mayor of Celoron was ever sussed out. In any case, influential people in Celoron have better taste than the sort of people who award commissions to the author of the porno King sculpture in Copley Square, so the ghastly Ball statue was removed and replaced with a bronze which actually looked like her.

John L Flaherty
John L Flaherty
Sunday, January 15, AD 2023 2:09pm

Eh, from the first picture shown here, …my first impression was that of two hands holding up a very large sausage. I’m having some trouble deriving an embrace from that.

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Sunday, January 15, AD 2023 2:09pm

I have a Dreamno, I mean, I have a nightmare.

Geesh.
This is schlocky beyond schlock.
A cataclysmic event bordering on crassness.
A billion Boston baked beans formed into miralax moment. Truly, a public eyesore.

I’m wondering if the work was supposed to be in Venice beach CA. Not Boston. A tribute to the homeless crisis and the public deification thereof?

Wow.

Art Deco
Sunday, January 15, AD 2023 2:35pm

That’s not how a sausage is shaped. It’s just disgusting.

Quotermeister
Quotermeister
Sunday, January 15, AD 2023 6:04pm

On an episode of “Mister Ed” from 1962 (“Ed and Paul Revere”), Roger Addison (Ed’s neighbor) gets a sculptor to create a statue of Paul Revere for the town park. Roger (a distant relative of Revere) wants to be the model for Paul. Ed wants to be the model for the horse (“to impress the fillies”).
[It’s a great episode overall with the unveiling at around 23:16]:

“Silence! This is a masterpiece!”

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Monday, January 16, AD 2023 12:22am

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BPS
BPS
Monday, January 16, AD 2023 8:46am

In the documentary by Eli and Shelby Steele, “What Killed Michael Brown”, the brother of Michael Brown explicitly rejects MLK’s non-violence and says “Fu@K Martin Luther King”.
This is a continuation of that attitude.

SouthCoast
SouthCoast
Monday, January 16, AD 2023 2:29pm

Apparently, whoever at Boston City Hall put out the bid for public art couldn’t spell.

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