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Wow, I'm glad I read this! I knew the bull was guerilla art (put there without permission), and I knew (thought) that the girl was, too. And as such I thought i
by bambax 10y ago
Wow, I'm glad I read this! I knew the bull was guerilla art (put there without permission), and I knew (thought) that the girl was, too. And as such I thought it was a brilliant work of appropriation, and should stay.
But it turns out the girl is the result of a marketing campaign by a global advertising corporation for a giant investment fund. That changes everything.
Companies should not be let to use individual artists' work for their own corporate agenda. That's not right, whatever the message.
Di Modica, who still owns the bull, should put it somewhere else -- maybe in a different city.
- narag 10y agoDi Modica, who still owns the bull, should put it somewhere else Doing that could be an even bigger act of subversion than placing the girl there. What would become the meaning of the girl then?
- ludicast 10y agoNot his problem.
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- voidz 10y agoHe should turn it around, to make it obvious that the girl is taunting the bull.
- Spooky23 10y agoFollow much of the industry sick of NY nonsense and move it to Jersey City.
- m-j-fox 10y agoI love it. There was an article about how the stock exchange actually lives in a nondescript warehouse-looking data center. Put the bull there.
- raverbashing 10y agoWorks of art may outgrow their sponsors Example: works sponsored by the House of Medici
- tgb 10y agoMy first thought on this has always been the famous statue of David. It originally had political undertones (David meant to show what a good ruler would be). Later, the Perseus with the Head of Medusa statue was erected. [1] Subversively, the head of Medusa is positioned so that David would be turned to stone. Rather clever, but I think the greatness of David has rather out shown the political commentary there. (All this according to my tour guide.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus_with_the_Head_of_Medusa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus_with_the_Head_of_Medus...
- peteretep 10y ago> That changes everything If I hadn't read the article, I wouldn't have known. I suspect very few people know the provenance of the statue, and, few care.
- derrickdirge 10y agoDo you have a problem with all privately funded art? Because every private entity that funds a work of art has an agenda. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the artist's agenda. Should an artist be expected to turn down funding for their work just because they don't like the way the funder interprets their work?