Smithsonian Magazine
Through June 29, members of the public can visit (and eventually interact with) another monumental addition to the Manhattan landmark: artist Sanford Biggers’ Oracle, a 25-foot-tall, 15,280-pound bronze sculpture. Unveiled last week, the work depicts a person or deity with an enormous head who sits majestically on a throne in front of Rockefeller Center’s Fifth Avenue entrance.
Oracle is the latest entry in Biggers’ Chimera series, which merges European statues and African masks in an interrogation of sculptural art’s history and power, reports Sarah Cascone for Artnet News. The work is Biggers’ largest-scale Chimera commission to date, notes a statement from exhibition co-organizer Art Production Fund.
As Biggers tells Artnet News, he drew inspiration from the ancient Greek Temple of Zeus and African religious art, especially that of the Luba and Maasai cultures. Per the statement, the artist was also intrigued by ongoing scholarly conversations about the whitewashing of European sculptural history and “black-washing” of African sculpture. More
Looks like “Sad Black Guy.”
(Bronze @ 15,280 pounds? That’s a fortune in copper!)
That is bullshit art.
The artist’s last name rhymes with the most offensive racial slur ever created by a democrat.
Oracles were thought to be portals through which the gods spoke directly to people.
The Oracle George Floyd is either saying “don’t put drugs up your ass, rob people at gunpoint, pass fake 20’s, disobey cops, drive high as a kite” or perhaps “don’t be a dumb nigger like me?”
At least it is not Cassils’s PISSED
Which we all remember was 200 gallons of piss in a plexiglass cube.
https://www.art-agenda.com/features/240684/cassils-s-monumental
Putnit next to obama’s tacky portrait.
It’s Starvin’ Marvin from South Park. Hilarious!
It’s not racist…..Much
It might look better after the pigeons do their magic on it.
BIG BLACK BIGHEAD!
That’s one hell of a big doorstop
Wait until they come up with one that appears to breathe and speak.
And how is a macrocephalitic mongoloid, art?
Correction: macrocephalic.
Reparations……check. Next.
That looks exactly like a piece shit from the great big dump I took yesterday!
hideous
By August BLM will vandalize it because they forgot what it’s for.
All hat, no cattle.
Let’s compare…Michelangelo’s Pieta or David vs. any art form from the Luba and Maasai cultures. Yea, thought so.
I’ve always thought the Little Rascals were great, but why create a 15,280 pound statue of Stymie?
So, he’s taking a dump in the dark?
Who gives a fan about “culture”?
The idea is if you immigrate here, you adopt the culture Americans built. Seriously, it’s been quite the rage for 250 years!
At some point, it must come down. We live in a no-statues-allowed society now.
To paraphrase: All statues go to ground.
Don’t be a goober.
And you thought lawn jockeys were racist, a giant flat nosed, big lipped, big headed are man sitting on the toilet holding a douche to clean his ass.
When will black folk ever realize the marxist joke is akways on them?
It reeks of menthol.
FFS… If I sent a picture of that around at work, I’d get fired. The profile shows his face model was basically Homer Simpson. What a fucking travesty of shit art. We should put them all over the place and rename our country Crapanui.
…is there some way this isn’t an unbelievably racist caricature? Because this sure LOOKS like an unbelievably racist caricature…
Planned Parenthood headquarters is in NYC, put it out front.
From the collection of Sanford’s Biggers…
Look stoned…and in a bad mood as well.
Thin weak arms and…
Sitting on a classical base.
lolol
https://twitter.com/ilSharko/status/1392309907379130372
I think I read about that thing in an Uncle Remus story.
Sooooo… Shaq’s just hanging out in front of Rockefeller Center now?
Apparently it is supposed to live up to the name Oracle.
It will become interactive and spout recordings from “celebrities”.
I hope someone hacks into it and makes it say:
“Where the white women at?”
God bless you Mel Brooks!
That looks like something Stacy Abrams passed after a night at Taco Bell.
OMG, that is ugly. It looks like a Shelia Jackson Lee bobble-head.
I’m quite pleased, I think it represents african culture to a ‘T’!
Cartoonish.
Melt it down after June 29th, sell the bronze, buy AR-15s and pistols to distribute to the inner city youts that can’t afford them. You know equity.
And the best part is when you walk up to it, it says “Hey Dum Dum, me want gum gum!”
I would have preferred a 25 foot tall statue of a lawn jockey to better represent black “culture”.
Planet of the Apes
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/74098356352622763/
They forgot the ring to tie the horse.
It is a dildo!
I dindu nuffin.