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Our very own @YayRain (after having imbibed some golden nectar), shares with us yet one more problem with CRT....
Walter Kirn went to see it. Per him on X:
Irony off
The new Times Square statue is doing something modern art does well
Make you wonder what art is
And why you think as you do about it
Man was it interesting being out there just now
People are just baffled
The int'l tourists especially
https://x.com/walterkirn/status/1920594139659305412
Pirate Wires weighs in:
A giant, 12-foot-tall bronze statue of an overweight black woman now looms large on the corner of Broadway and 46th Street. In this stunning architectural display, the woman strikes a matter-of-fact, hands-on-the-hips pose — as if to say “I’m on my break” — reminding all passersby that life is meant to be lived leisurely, loudly, like a kween. Who is she, you ask? This shimmering Shaniqua of Manhattan? Apparently, nobody. The statue is an anonymous fictionalized woman constructed to serve as a “contrast” to two Times Square monuments depicting white men (a war hero and Broadway superstar). Indeed, some might quibble that ...
