MLK sculpture in Boston
Today honors the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Daniel Greenfield observes the occasion
by weighing in on the newly unveiled bronze sculpture on Boston Common:
The Sculptural
Degradation of Martin Luther King Must End
When leftists aren't
tearing down noble statues,
they're putting up ugly ones
Forget tearing down the statues of
American historical figures, if they really wanted to humiliate them, they
would put up new statues of them.
Just ask MLK.
The D.C. MLK memorial was bad
enough. Not only does it look more like Mao than MLK, and maybe carving the
most prominent black man in the country out of white rock was an odd choice,
but the $10 million Boston MLK memorial decided that it could do better.
Titled “The Embrace,” it’s a nightmarish image that looks like a collaboration between M.C. Escher and H.R.Giger. There’s nothing ennobling or dignified about this artistic statement about the sculptor’s love of curves and circles. It goes beyond being meaningless to being actively ugly and offensive, a tangle of arms that embrace themselves. When leftists aren’t tearing down noble statues, they’re putting up incredibly ugly ones. . . .
Mr Greenfield closes:
Putting up something like the $10M
MLK memorial in Boston is its own act of artistic vandalism and, in its own
way, shows the degeneracy of a culture that tears down statues but can’t manage
to create one.
The full commentary is at Front Page Magazine here.
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