Beat me to it!!! lol

WOW, it's pretty ugly

I agree. People are so fucking dumb and have no imagination whatsoever. At least it’s public art that actually says something instead of the usual made-by-committee-corporate-bullshit-drivel that the mouth breathers love. Honestly if an artwork doesn’t offend anyone at all then it wasn’t worth making. Don’t @ me

Great art is meant to be thought provoking, this fits the bill.

I think you're overgeneralizing their statement.

Looks like someone waiting for a bomb to explode. Or a student in a very normal active shooter drill.

Even with the hand…. It looks like shoving a giant butt plug or something up the butt. This is up there with worst statues of all time and it’s being celebrated?

This monstrosity never fails to bring a smile to my face when it pops up

It just still looks horrible. I'm sorry, I know the meaning behind the statue, but the execution of this piece of 10 million dollars is awful

I walk pass the other side of it everyday as the shortest path to get to my work place. It looks like it's holding a massive dong. The back of it should really be against a building since on the other side of it, it's leading to a massive shopping street, therefore a lot of people who try to access the subway station 40 meters from it when coming out of the shopping street will just see an arm holding a massive dong. It's also one of the most busy subway station there as it connects to multiple lines there.

Great picture! I think this is the first image I’ve seen of this statue where I get what the artist was going for! Thanks for sharing!

Mlk Jr hugging his massive black co-

I dunno man, still resembles anything but what they intended from my perspective.

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I guess a statue of the great Martin Luther King was just to obvious. I would much rather have a quality piece of statuary.

Im not defending this particular piece, but most public art is pretty expensive. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth making.

People love to complain about public art and architecture spending. But would you rather live in cities full of concrete boxes than pay some money to make them look nice? I wouldn’t

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The turd on turd action plaza

Or throwing it out the window as you said. Which was an egregious misrepresentation of what transpired, moreso reflecting your views than any objective reality of the situation. It's no surprise you've backpeddled here afterwards.

Outside of throwing the money in the river, any project would've accomplished that.

No it wasn't, many families were able to pay bills and engage in economic activity from what they earned from the project.

That's valuable whether you acknowledge it or not.

It was a complete waste of funds. It is not relevant that the money still exists in the economy.

Lol whatever you say. You equated it to a complete waste instead of recognizing that money still has value in the community via its recipients.

That is what I said. I just had to break it down a little further for those that were struggling to comprehend my simple message.