The "artist".
Posted on 09/10/2026 2:46:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A sculpture inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary "everywoman" to Trafalgar Square has been unveiled on London's Fourth Plinth.
Lady In Blue by New York artist Tschabalala Self, which pays homage to a young, metropolitan woman, is the 16th artwork to feature on the plinth since 1998.
The bronze and blue figure replaces Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant) by Teresa Margolles.
The statue has been patinated with a pigment refined from Lapis Lazuli, a semi-precious stone that has been used by artists for millennia.
Self said she had set out to put an ordinary contemporary Londoner on a site more usually associated with statues of monarchs and military commanders.
"My work Lady In Blue will bring to Trafalgar Square a woman that many can relate to," the artist said.
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Well-stated.
>>The West has been conquered.
Considering the current installation is “Plaster casts of the faces of 850 trans people arranged in an Aztec tzompantli (skull rack)”, the West has been conquered for many years.
The "artist".
I can’t breeve….
C'mon now, you know this:
"Tschabalala. Tschabalala. Tschabalala. Tschabalala.
Dodin-dodin-do-do, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah.
And every time that we-, ooh, I'm more in love with you."
"Loving You" - Minnie Riperton
The fall of Britain is truly depressing.
It’s R Crumb’s Angelfood McSpade cartoon character
I remember Jimmy the Greek talking about someone like that and he ended up getting fired.
Brutal.
There's a statue along the same lines in Times Square and another at Rockefeller Center.
Very carefully if your mouth is full in a restaurant...
Oh, how nice. An unhealthy, morbidly obese water buffalo. But why?
It’s left hand looks like it was built with AI. Those fingers just ain’t right. The left hand is not so great either. You, know, the more I look, everything between the left and right hand is rather ill proportioned. It is pretty hideous.
Throw a burqa over that awful thing.
Oh Good God, this statue is laughable.
Grotesque.
Oh my lord, what silly bullsh*t.
These clowns are laughable.
Is that male or female?
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