[cyclotic]

When I was about 16, one of the freeway bridge abutments on I-94 just north of Detroit sported some communist grafitti. One night, someone very artfully covered it with an American Flag made of oil paint. It remained for many, many years, undefiled. Finally it all flaked off.

[Daffynition]

To play devil's advocate, posters on the thread seem to think this statue is cool; when is the line crossed when it is considered an eyesore, a pile of junk, like the graffiti you mentioned. Is graffiti art? Is this art?

I recall the graffiti artist Banksy and how some of his stuff is edgy, more often than not, progressive; yet he is discounted here by posters.