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Who is memorialized in a statue in your town or city?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by YankeeFan, Sep 9, 2013.

  1. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Arthur Ashe statue makes it look like he's about to go Daddy Dearest on the kids here:

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  2. Bronco77

    Bronco77 Well-Known Member

  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Shit Fountain is a couple of blocks from us, outside an artist's home/studio:

    Artist Jerzy S. Kenar installed the public poop as a winking tribute to all of the dogs in the neighborhood who are known to trample and defecate upon his flowers. The metal make sits atop a three-foot sandstone pedestal like a classical Grecian bust and slowly dribbles water into a shallow basin. While the piece may seem disgusting or in poor taste, but it has garnered almost no outcry from the community who seem to truly enjoy the whimsical statement. Technically the statue sits on Kenar’s private property so the city is not concerned either.

    Surprisingly, Kenar is mainly known as a religious and political artist having designed a number of pieces of church architecture and public pieces such as a tribute to Black History Month. Unsurprisingly, the neighborhood dogs do not know about his larger artistic career, but they undoubtedly know his fountain.


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  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Very weirdly, given this thread. ... We stopped for a second to discuss a statue of Eleanor Roosevelt yesterday, all the way over on 72nd Street on the West Side yesterday, and this woman who was all geeked up about statues overheard us and got really excited. She started telling us about New York's "talking statues." There are a few dozen of them, including Harriet Tubman, Gertrude Stein, Confucius, Joan of Arc, Jackie Robinson. I had no idea these existed, but if you scan the QR code on the statues, you get a phone call with recording of an actor playing the person in the statue telling his or her story.
     
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