A strange golden statue popped up on top of one of New York City’s courthouses and left many with a bad taste in their mouth, even after its intent was explained.
Fresh on the heels of a questionable-looking memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, another statue is in the headlines for being a head-scratching hat tip to a historical figure.
According to a Twitter thread, the artwork titled “NOW” depicts a female with braided horns and tentacle-like arms emerging from a lotus flower. It was designed to pay homage to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and her support for abortion rights.
The creator of the piece claimed it was part of an “urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.”
A new statue atop a New York City courthouse. The artist says it’s part of an “urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st-century social mores.” pic.twitter.com/4IFRj7hCsf
— Andrew Beck (@AndrewBeckUSA) January 25, 2023
Not everyone was impressed by the statue, and comments quickly made the rounds on Twitter:
— Magills (@magills_) January 25, 2023
If you gaze upon RBG Medusa atop the New York Courthouse, your uterus turns to stone pic.twitter.com/EYtrmCUG14
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 25, 2023
I wasn’t a fan of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but even she deserves better than that ugly, satanic-looking eyesore.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) January 25, 2023
One of the ugliest things I’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t brag about being associated with it.
— Chris Manning (@Manning4USCong) January 25, 2023
Very feminine you know?
— Andrew Beck (@AndrewBeckUSA) January 25, 2023
The H.R. Giger Estate should demand royalties. pic.twitter.com/cHMIrWIiY1
— Justin Lee (@justindeanlee) January 26, 2023
New York City is a Lovecraftian nightmare
— 【 . 】 (@Vox_Oculi) January 25, 2023
Paying homage to a Jewish woman by portraying her with horns, a centuries-old anti-Semitic trope… and it doesn’t even match the others and is hideous. Yikes
— Miranda ✨ (@mir_and_a) January 25, 2023
The thing that gets me is her emptiness of expression & harmony. No matter how “realistic”, it reeks of artistic infantilism.
Compare to olden times goddess statues which convey a connection to higher states in their composition & expression.
The wokes are incapable of this. pic.twitter.com/FtoKeCzp0Y
— Lev Polyakov (@LevPo) January 26, 2023
— ᴍʏ ᴡɪʟʟᴏᴡ ᴍᴇᴍᴇꜱ (@MyWillowMemes) January 25, 2023
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