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New 'random' Martin Luther King Jr. sculpture
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Posted By: NorthernDog, 1/14/2023 10:56:52 PM

A bronze sculpture called The Embrace honoring Martin Luther King Jr. was unveiled Friday in Boston, but the 20-feet long and 26-feet wide bronze sculpture is drawing a lot of mixed reviews. The bronze structure, designed by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, depicts the arms, shoulders, and hands of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King hugging after he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Plenty of social media users joined in to share their confusion about how Thomas designed the sculpture. "I have some questions about the MLK sculpture in Boston," said one social media

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$10 million and he forgot to include their heads on the sculpture.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: 2assume 1/14/2023 11:23:47 PM (No. 1378826)
I have mixed feelings ranging from shocked to revulsion. How dare they use this disgusting image to represent a great man who inspired the world with his love for all mankind. Take a good hard look people. Can anyone honestly believe this hideous thing is art.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: downnout 1/14/2023 11:40:25 PM (No. 1378835)
9.5 million dollars could have provided superb educations to students. Boston made a poor choice.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Catherine 1/15/2023 12:18:47 AM (No. 1378852)
Good lord what a mess. He had to try to make it looks that bad.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 1/15/2023 12:51:00 AM (No. 1378859)
So much crap is sold as "art" these days. I did a good bit of consulting on art conservation at the local art museum, and with the Getty in LA, and....sometimes had to bite my tongue about some of the art, and some of the meetings with the artists required a lot of skill to keep a straight face about their "art" as I learned how it was actually made, because I was in charge of figuring out how to keep it from falling totally apart in the weather. Sorry, this is crap.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: happywarrior 1/15/2023 12:53:07 AM (No. 1378861)
Omg.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Paglia guy 1/15/2023 1:09:00 AM (No. 1378869)
Let's call it, "the teabag."
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JoElla Bee 1/15/2023 1:43:51 AM (No. 1378877)
Sorry in advance. But, first thought - A hello to arms, a farewell to heads and bodies.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mifla 1/15/2023 5:37:36 AM (No. 1378898)
I am offended - this statue must be removed immediately.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Strike3 1/15/2023 5:46:06 AM (No. 1378904)
It looks like one of the giant bugs in "Starship Troopers." What kind of drugs was this "artist" taking?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DCGIRL 1/15/2023 5:53:08 AM (No. 1378909)
#2, you can pump a Trillion dollars into our school system and it is still crap. Our education system is truly broken and money will not fix it. It's going to take determined parents to rip it apart and put it back together right.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: SweetPea3 1/15/2023 6:43:59 AM (No. 1378939)
The artist(?) forgot their heads. Or maybe to immerse it in a giant tank of urine, like our Savior was depicted, and it was lauded as such great art that noo yawkas lined up around the block to view it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: rightdog 1/15/2023 6:51:58 AM (No. 1378942)
Look on the bright side, folks. It isn't as bad as "artist"/photographer Andres Serrano's "Immersion" (commonly called P*** Christ) exhibit in 1987.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Rather Read 1/15/2023 7:17:50 AM (No. 1378958)
No heads, no bodies just disembodied arm. It could be anybody's arms. Where is the context? Most students are so ignorant of history it scares me to death. I've met some who have no idea who Lyndon B. Johnson was and they've never heard of The Great Society (the source of many of our woes). Martin Luther King was an inspiring leader and superb orator and he certainly deserves better than this mess. I wonder what his wonderful niece Alveda King thinks of it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 1/15/2023 7:22:33 AM (No. 1378961)
Interesting. I like it. Like, not love.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Rumblehog 1/15/2023 7:25:29 AM (No. 1378962)
MLK, Jr. was known for his "embrace" alright; not of his wife, but of prostitutes and "other victims," as the FBI discovered. It's been 55 years since HIS death, and 17 years past his wife's death, which is well past the amount of time allotted ANY American, so release his "raw" FBI files, NOW!
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Reply 16 - Posted by: 3XALADY 1/15/2023 7:36:23 AM (No. 1378973)
I am surprised blacks remember who he was and what he stood for. But why are they remembering him now? He's been dead since Hector was a pup. Also, don't forget he has another statue in remembrance. I think it is in DC and he looks like a Chinaman.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: chance_232 1/15/2023 7:50:41 AM (No. 1378991)
The artist is clearly talented and the bronze work is very good. I don't know what he was going for.....but the Democrat voters of Boston are the proud owners of this monstrosity. Enjoy!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by: smokincol 1/15/2023 8:11:08 AM (No. 1379016)
comrade Wu, mayor of the city of boston was elated at the thought of this which is all it takes in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, where diapers would feel right at home
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Reply 19 - Posted by: minuteman 1/15/2023 8:30:00 AM (No. 1379031)
This piece is all about the artist not about the greatness of the subject.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: konocti95 1/15/2023 9:43:08 AM (No. 1379085)
Much better than the one in DC. Public instillations are always difficult because of differences in taste and values, just ask Teddy Roosevelt or Robert E. Lee.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: smaricic 1/15/2023 10:57:41 AM (No. 1379170)
Some committee approved this thing. Why?
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Reply 22 - Posted by: granny5 1/15/2023 11:14:40 AM (No. 1379181)
Hideous.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Jackie 1/15/2023 3:19:39 PM (No. 1379294)
Ok..if no one else will say it I will. The 1st picture I saw looked like 2 hands holding a giant p*nis. Sorry but it looked like pure porn to me. disgusting.
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