Make a statement...
...my hairy, pimpled arse... just tell me not one single taxpayer dollar was used to put this monstrosity on public display...
"It was important to let the public speak," said Miriam Blume, the Biennale's director of marketing and communications, in an interview with the Post. "We were fascinated watching the media coverage, reading the letters to the editor."Not to be a Philistine here, Miriam... but who exactly is preventing the public from speaking? If anything... wasn't that what Mao & Lenin were most famous for?
You wanna freak out about censorship... maybe do it over here.
And, oh yeah... while we're on free speech, please tell me, while the whole country is flipping out about deficit spending... who exactly is paying the freight on this?
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"Now THAT is a statue that deserves to be soaked in buckets of blood."**********
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8 comments:
Long since come to despise Richmond BC and it's anti-Canadian hyphenated immigrants, as far as I'm concerned it no longer is part of BC but rather a part of communist China.
Bummer about the pimples man.
Rob C
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"brm says... anti-Canadian hyphenated immigrants"
that's what you got from this... a beef about immigration?
think waste & aesthetic insult.
mrs neo was wondering if someone was going to put a big bust of hitler right next to it. she felt sorry for the folks who had to walk past this thing everyday.
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These idiots take two of the biggest genocidal oppressive megalomaniacs in history, chrome them and call it art? WTF? Nevermind that Mao is portrayed as a woman. I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. What's next, Stalin tapdancing on Hitler's head?
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"bdft says... Stalin tapdancing on Hitler's head?"
i guess us knuckle-draggin' neocons just can't appreciate fine art, huh?
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Now THAT is a statue that deserves to be soaked in buckets of blood.
I'll be the first to admit I don't know anything about art, but I do know what I like.
And this.... I DO NOT LIKE.
The good thing neo, is that the Gao brothers who created this thing are anti-communist. I'm not sure exactly how to interpret this statue but I'dbe interested to hear what they mean by it.
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