So what? Who makes the definitive, and arbitrary, law of what should be portrayed as a statue? Animals? How about cocolithophores? Why just men, women and animals? They left out amoebas, mushrooms, slime molds, and a plethora of other organisms that fail to qualify. Is that inclusive, indicative of “diversity?” What pure blather CNN publishes. Nonsense, pure unadulterated crap.
Unfortunately, a lot of ‘modern’ sculpture does look like amoebas, slime molds, and plethora of unidentifiable ‘stuff’...
Michaelangelo, St. Gaudens, &c, have been turning in their graves for decades.