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2019-11-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Why Brooklyn’s newest public art statue makes some think of ISIS

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Posted by Fred 2019-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 A monument to the coming Wakanda and a finger from the bygone Osama.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-12 01:27|| 2019-11-12 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The Finger! Again with the Finger!!

Posted by Unosh Hupinelet8756 2019-11-12 06:11|| 2019-11-12 06:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like a college B'ball player after a win.

"We're #1!"

"The 22.5 foot sculpture echoes the Statue of Liberty’s iconic gesture

Only if they set the finger on fire....

Posted by AlanC 2019-11-12 07:33|| 2019-11-12 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Quick stop at Home Depot, a windless night, and you could have a big old booger stuck on that fingertip and be gone in what, twenty seconds?

Posted by Beldar Hupinerong3946 2019-11-12 09:08|| 2019-11-12 09:08|| Front Page Top

#5 just begging for a huge 'we're #1' foam finger to be stuck on it.

the $284,000, publicly-funded sculpture

great work if you can get it, i guess

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2019-11-12 09:52|| 2019-11-12 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Not sure about the ISIS or islamic 72 goat salute thing; angle of shoulder suggests to me like AlanC's victory lap.

In art terms, the post-modern talentless garbage with city grift version of Lift Up Thine Eyes by Rockwell.

It really is so bland as to beg for viewer enhancements...like a proctologist exam ad.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-11-12 12:53|| 2019-11-12 12:53|| Front Page Top

#7 It does have that 1920's/30's Fascist Kitsch look so popular in Europe.

Posted by magpie 2019-11-12 15:27|| 2019-11-12 15:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Wrong finger if it's ISIS.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-12 16:11|| 2019-11-12 16:11|| Front Page Top

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