A close second is "Chrome Bison":
Posted on 05/08/2025 8:31:48 PM PDT by Morgana
New York City's Times Square installed a statue of a 12-foot-tall Black woman in casual clothing that its creator hopes will encourage people to reflect on "greater cultural diversity."
New York-based Times Square Arts recently put up the new statue display, titled "Grounded in the Stars," by artist Thomas J Price, along with his "Man Series" animated billboards, both of which are temporary, but causing a stir online.
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Is that thing freestanding? If so there should be a cash prize to anyone who can topple that top-heavy monstrosity.
‘High calorie black woman’
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Oh no they didn’t...
” You think you can get those cuffs on me MFer, just try it !”
Another day older,
And deeper in debt.
I know what you thinkin. Did ah eat all six poke chops, or only five? I see you wantin to lif that broiler pan sucka.
Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, ah kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a 9” serving fork, the most powerful fork in the tray, and would go right through yo han’, you gots to ask yourself one question:
“Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?”
The Times Square Alliance is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization and is governed by a large, voluntary Board of Directors.
https://www.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-alliance/staff
Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, collaborates with contemporary artists and cultural institutions to experiment and engage with one of the world’s most iconic urban places. Through the Square’s electronic billboards, public plazas, vacant areas and popular venues, and the Alliance’s own online landscape, Times Square Arts invites leading contemporary creators to help the public see Times Square in new ways. Times Square has always been a cultural district and place of risk, innovation and creativity, and the arts program ensures these qualities remain central to the district’s unique identity.
https://www.timessquarenyc.org/arts/tsq-arts-about
Visitors and residents of Times Square have a new piece of artwork on view these days: a 12-foot-tall sculpture of a woman, titled Grounded in the Stars, stands at Broadway and 46th Street.
The bronze sculpture is the brainchild of London-based figurative artist Thomas J Price (Jamaican father / English mother). By creating the fictional character, Price aimed to encapsulate the observations, images, and open calls of New York, Los Angeles, and London.
The sculpture of the young woman is just one of Price’s works for onlookers to observe as they pass through the iconic area. Throughout May, Price’s stop-motion animation Man Series will be featured on over 90 billboards. The multi-channel presentation is part of the world’s largest digital public art initiative, Midnight Moment, and passersby can catch the nightly presentation on screens from 11:57 p.m. to 12 a.m.
“I hope Grounded in the Stars and Man Series will instigate meaningful connections and bind intimate emotional states that allow for deeper reflection around the human condition and greater cultural diversity.”
Grounded in the Stars is supported by the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, Morgan Stanley, the New York State Council on the Arts, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the City Council, and the Times Square Edition Hotel. The sculpture will be on display through June 17.
Ding ding ding ding ding! Post of the thread!
It's never been conclusively proven that Thomas was the father and not his nephew. But of course it has been claimed as if gospel.
Italy has one.
More details here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/statues-random-fat-black-women-popping-worldwide
a way of “disrupting traditional ideas” of what a “triumphant figure” is.
Interesting: "traditional ideas" of a "triumphant figure" involve someone who has actually triumphed over some serious adversity. Obese, arrogant welfare queens DO NOT qualify.
Post 117 explains this well.
A close second is "Chrome Bison":
Sure looks like her!
Do the eyes point in different directions?
I like the mural, and the feeling that she’s breaking down a wall. It reminds me of the statue of MLK emerging from the mountain, down at the Tidal Basin.
I know neither are to everyone’s taste.
It’s a well done mural, just a wee bit too “modern” for my taste. But yes, breaking through the wall IS a powerful construct!
There’s no proof of that.
Lol! Dang. Beat me to it!
😳
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