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Britain's 'worst sculpture' will be demolished just months after being installed [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| June 5, 2019
| Bridie Pearson-jones
Posted on 06/06/2019 3:17:11 AM PDT by C19fan
A giant public artwork costing £45,000 dubbed 'Britain's worst sculpture' is going to be demolished just months after it was installed. The four stone plinths were erected in The Cornhill in Ipswich, Suffolk, last December as part of a £3.6m regeneration project aimed at bringing a 'wow factor' to the area. But the structures - dubbed Cornhenge by locals - quickly prompted criticism that it was an 'ugly waste of money.'
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: art; cornhenge; cornhill; ipswich; suffolk; uk; unitedkingdom
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A horrible knock off of Stonehenge???
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:17:11 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
It looks like the kind of "sculpture" that you can find gracing any ghetto public housing project.
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:22:53 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(September 11, 2001 : Never forget, never forgive.)
To: C19fan
It’s just plain....not ugly. Dumb to take it down.
To: C19fan
I could have created something just as ugly and charged only half what they paid for this.
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:27:42 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(2019 => The House of Representin')
To: Governor Dinwiddie; raygunfan; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON
It’s a statue of limitations!
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:29:26 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:36:13 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: C19fan
Benches for really tall people?
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:39:23 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(Global warming is AWESOME!)
To: C19fan
Just plain dumb. Zero artistic value. Has zero usefulness.
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:42:22 AM PDT
by
Trumpet 1
(US Constitution is my guide.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
It looks like the kind of "sculpture" that you can find gracing any ghetto public housing project.It is also the type of "beautification" you get whenever some (Democrat controlled) city in Iowa discovers about $60,000 under the sofa cushions. Such money is never used to fix the potholes in the streets or hire an extra cop to deal with the hourly shoplifters at Walmart.
After further contemplation, the subject of the article makes for ugly sculpture but would be a comparatively attractive base for a railroad coaling tower.
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:43:06 AM PDT
by
niteowl77
To: Governor Dinwiddie
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:43:29 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
To: Libloather
So the objection is that it’s seen as discriminatory, not open borders/open bathrooms/open showers/open-ness?
To: Trumpet 1
It is what it is neither here nor there.
not worth 45,000 IMHO
Don’t know if it is worth tearing it down.
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:45:08 AM PDT
by
riverrunner
( o the public,)
To: SaveFerris; sit-rep; Hot Tabasco; PGalt
Now they just need to do something with Michigan's worst sculpture. "The Halo" isn't the nickname that stuck.
To: C19fan
Did they hire Clark Griswold to knock it down?
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:50:47 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
To: C19fan
But the artist was trying to convey how the average citizen looks at art. /s
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posted on
06/06/2019 4:02:09 AM PDT
by
SMGFan
("God love ya! What am I talking about")
To: C19fan
My suggestion: Sell it to Los Angeles for £90,000 ($114,000). Tell them that the four structures represent the four letters in LGBT.
See? Sometimes complicated problems have easy solutions.
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posted on
06/06/2019 4:05:30 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: Trumpet 1
I don’t know about that...
Is a visualization of what wasting 45000 pounds would look like.
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posted on
06/06/2019 4:07:09 AM PDT
by
Adder
(Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
They look like metal detectors.
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
06/06/2019 4:13:27 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
To: Larry Lucido
Hahahahahahahaha! I can only guess at the nickname that DID stick!!!
“Hi hon. I’m gonna be late again. Traffic is backed up near the Golden Anus again...”
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posted on
06/06/2019 4:15:01 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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