Here is the 25-Foot Statue They Just Unveiled
in NYC Rockefeller Center to Honor
African Culture…
Gateway Pundit,
by
Jim Hoft
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/12/2021 12:46:56 AM
The new 25 foot-tall statue unveiled in New York City’s Rockefeller Center to honor “African culture” was unveiled this week. (Tweets/Video) Eurweb reported on the project. This spring, multiple disciplinary artist Sanford Biggers will transform Rockefeller Center with several public art exhibitions, including the highly anticipated monumental Oracle sculpture. Presented by ART PRODUCTION FUND and ROCKEFELLER CENTER, in partnership with MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY, and several years in the making, Biggers will be the first artist invited by Rockefeller Center for a multimedia survey exhibition campus-wide from May 5 to June 29, 2021.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ribicon 5/12/2021 12:47:53 AM (No. 782609)
Horrendous.
39 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 5/12/2021 1:10:37 AM (No. 782625)
Imagine had a white guy made this!
37 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/12/2021 1:20:28 AM (No. 782633)
25 feet? I'm surprised it isn't 100 feet. Gag a maggot.
41 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2021 1:38:27 AM (No. 782651)
Yep, early iron age tribes who never got past simple, non-representative wood carvings as their highest art form.
No written languages, no iron works until learned from Carthage. Never developed hardened steels. Drums as primary "musical" instruments. Any actual music?
Looking at Greek and Roman art, architecture and aquaducts, waterwheels, etc...nothing much happened in subSaharan Africa. Carthage, too, had decent technology. Early Persians, too.
49 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
linkay6 5/12/2021 1:46:28 AM (No. 782659)
That's uglier than the south end of a northbound mule
31 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/12/2021 1:49:43 AM (No. 782663)
Is that a bobble head?
And what's with the Statue of Libertyesque torch, some freakin' beacon?
18 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/12/2021 1:56:39 AM (No. 782668)
It must be a joke
27 people like this.
Careful, now. Any critique short of an "ooh" or "ahh" will be considered racist.
35 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
DARling 5/12/2021 2:35:06 AM (No. 782686)
Looks like a black Tweety Bird. Big head, little body, total cartoon character.
41 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
qr4j 5/12/2021 2:36:44 AM (No. 782687)
If the artist were white, he’d be guilty of a hate crime — and rightly so. This is horrible. It doesn’t depict the beauty of African-Americans. It looks like it is poking fun at them. An Aunt Jemima bottle carries more respect. And I’m not endorsing one of them either.
40 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2021 3:05:25 AM (No. 782693)
#10, I have hunted in Africa, the did some self-drive touring.
That thing is pretty representative of the carved wooden figures and masks that they have made as 'cultural objects' and to sell to tourists for a very long time. We bought some nice hippo, rhino, kudu and elephant wood carvings that look just like the animals, some in a rich red wood with a polished finish, others a hard very dark wood, possibly ebony, with carved in grooved, 'wrinkled' texture. Most of the 'humanoid' figures that we saw in the crafts markets, we judge to be ugly (like this thing) and didn't purchase.
18 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
artsy 5/12/2021 3:23:44 AM (No. 782697)
The “artist “ laughs as he waits for people who “know” art to heap praise. You’d be hard pressed to find a black person who thinks this honors them.
16 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rather Read 5/12/2021 4:02:26 AM (No. 782700)
It looks like a bobblehead - an ugly one.
14 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
4Justice 5/12/2021 4:05:49 AM (No. 782703)
Another ugly post-modern statue being paid for by taxpayers and depressing the public because it fits a political agenda of a few power hungry b******s...while beautiful, historically significant statues were allowed to be destroyed defaced or taken down and hidden away because those same greedy tyrants manipulated the public and abused their power to get their way.
22 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 5/12/2021 5:20:09 AM (No. 782710)
Embarrassing!!! If I was an african american, I would be insulted.
22 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Petronius 5/12/2021 5:47:57 AM (No. 782714)
It would be even more representative if it was clubbing an Asian person.
25 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Banjo Willy 5/12/2021 5:48:36 AM (No. 782715)
Oh ... Nice. A great replication of the A.F. Good of moods;
"Eef-fah-cayngetmuhwey, Izastubin-up!"
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Banjo Willy 5/12/2021 6:13:52 AM (No. 782722)
Oh ... Nice. A great replication of the A.A. God of moods;
"Eef-fah-cayngetmuhwey, Izastubin-up!"
3 people like this.
Fugly beyond belief, hideous, cartoonish and just p%%% poor “art”. Hope they like it!
8 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 5/12/2021 7:04:53 AM (No. 782741)
It looks like a parody of an actual statue.
12 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
sw penn 5/12/2021 7:07:00 AM (No. 782742)
Aren't statues "Cultural Appropriation"?
When do the folks get to mob up
and pull it down?
14 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Lazyman 5/12/2021 7:07:21 AM (No. 782743)
This should be what finally pushes the tribe to believe in families staying together, supporting education by attending PTA meetings and backing the cops up instead of the criminals.
11 people like this.
There's thousands of these in Jamaica for sale. This one however is missing one big part.
10 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 5/12/2021 7:31:06 AM (No. 782752)
Has it climbed the Empire State building yet?
15 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/12/2021 7:33:21 AM (No. 782754)
Why is this even in NYC? If blacks want a statue commemorating African culture, it should show African AMERICAN culture and the statue should be of a young man with his pants below his arse, a can of spray paint in one hand, an illegal gun in the other and a joint hanging from his lip.
12 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/12/2021 7:33:52 AM (No. 782755)
I have 70 year old carved bookends for east Africa that look a lot like this.
3 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/12/2021 7:40:54 AM (No. 782757)
Wow. Not what I expected. I am not sure what it is meant to convey. It does is confirm what we all know. Art is as politicized as every other aspect of our lives. It is making a statement and caucasians should just wait to be told it’s meaning and brilliance. To state the obvious will be considered racist.
9 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Yuban 5/12/2021 8:03:36 AM (No. 782778)
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
6 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
jimboscott 5/12/2021 8:09:53 AM (No. 782784)
That's JIMMY NEUTRON with his hair on a stick...
5 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
3XALADY 5/12/2021 8:35:47 AM (No. 782808)
You could make gorilla cookies with that face.
3 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
Namma 5/12/2021 8:38:18 AM (No. 782811)
It’s FUGLY
4 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
3D-Chess 5/12/2021 9:02:24 AM (No. 782824)
And, this is important because __________.
WTFC?
1 person likes this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
padiva 5/12/2021 9:39:57 AM (No. 782875)
It would have been better to spend the money feeding hungry children.
7 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
Faithfully 5/12/2021 9:48:28 AM (No. 782882)
How does a self portrait of the artist represent African culture?
1 person likes this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/12/2021 9:48:46 AM (No. 782883)
Self portrait? The person who sculptured the Martin Luther King Jr. abomination could not be reached for comment. What talent! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder well somebody needs their eyes checked. Some say Myra Anjolu was a poet so this is par for the course.
3 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/12/2021 10:01:12 AM (No. 782906)
It looks like Cedric the Entertainer. John Kerry might recognize it as one of his brothers on Easter Island. Blacks in the US have absolutely no connection to African culture, unless you count the tendency to kill or beat on everything that moves. What a shame I will never view this monstrosity in person.
2 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
hershey 5/12/2021 10:02:47 AM (No. 782911)
Ha ha...looks like they stole it from Rapa Nui Island...and painted it with glossy black paint....
3 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 5/12/2021 10:05:44 AM (No. 782915)
Where are those famous words?
Gimme dat
2 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/12/2021 10:17:50 AM (No. 782941)
It seems to ridicule blacks in the way the Japanese were ridiculed on WW II war posters. It's grotesque.
2 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
Moritz55 5/12/2021 10:18:34 AM (No. 782943)
Looks a lot like one of the Easter Island “moai” heads. Cultural appropriation?
1 person likes this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
kidsmom 5/12/2021 10:31:53 AM (No. 782963)
His mom must be so proud...
1 person likes this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
AntiStatist 5/12/2021 4:23:00 PM (No. 783439)
Looks like it came from the woodpile on Easter Island.
0 people like this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Imright"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)