Who doesn't have one of those?

PPL_Wannabe: Who doesn't have one of those?

Well, considering the content, we all have common ownership of that one... so... no one doesn't have one of those.

I laughed when I saw the balancing pole. Not sure if that was a reaction they'd care for, but the construct is impressive all the same.

God Bless Chairman Mao.

New America's Founding Father.

I'd hit it

I want you to note something.

This monument was built in Richmond, Vancouver.

Where was Obama in April this year? Richmond, Virgina.

Look at the similarity of the names. Especially the V.

DO THE MATH, PEOPLE!

Kim Jong-il: God Bless Chairman Mao.

Dude weren't you in Team America?? Can I have your autograph?

All it needs is a sound system with Willie singing "You were always on my mind" with a Russian accent.

Mmmmm Public Art. ALWAYS a good investment.

simon bennet robbins oppenhiem and tap
Mmmmm Public Art. ALWAYS a good investment.

I'm pretty sure I could give Canada a better deal than 4 mil per stripe. Saw this in the Nat'l Art Gallery across the river from Parliament. Laughed my ass off, got scowls from all the art snobs.

// pretty sure I could do better with a roll of masking tape and two cans of house paint.
/// not exactly da'Vinci, meh...

And Lenin's getting LARRRGER.

FotoGeek: simon bennet robbins oppenhiem and tap
Mmmmm Public Art. ALWAYS a good investment.

I'm pretty sure I could give Canada a better deal than 4 mil per stripe. Saw this in the Nat'l Art Gallery across the river from Parliament. Laughed my ass off, got scowls from all the art snobs.

// pretty sure I could do better with a roll of masking tape and two cans of house paint.
/// not exactly da'Vinci, meh...


funny, I believe there's about 30 MILLION of us who thought we could do better for cheaper!!!
Farking Government

Then again, what do I know?

This is what real art does. It makes people react. You might not like it, but it's getting people to talk about it.

And who cares if it's a waste of taxpayer money, it's in Canada!

Great Indie flick Goodbye Lenin.

That is all.

The article mentions another piece called Device to Root Out all Evil. apparently that one did get run out of town by the locals.

Here's someone's Flickr image of it:


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LENIN! MY FRIEND. I COME!!!

/The pump caught in my trouser leg, and my sandwiches were badly crushed.

/Everything around here, I have to do.

notmtwain: Where's BHO?

Election was over quite a while ago, buddy.

Swampthing in Korea: I want you to note something.

This monument was built in Richmond, Vancouver.

Where was Obama in April this year? Richmond, Virgina.

Look at the similarity of the names. Especially the V.

DO THE MATH, PEOPLE!

My hair is a tiny chinese dictator. Your argument is invalid.

Canada is just getting ahead of the curve. They see the writing on the wall with all the socialist crap going on and don't want to be on the bad end when it finally comes to the USA. BHO and his neosocialist are hell bent on transforming America into a socialist workers paradise. Too bad for them because when it finally happens, all the businesses will have moved off shore and the only thing we'll produce here is welfare workers. I guess everyone plowing the fields by hand is what BHO wants for the new USSA.

Feminized Mao?

Maybe they could put his face on toilet paper and call it Charmin Mao.

Wow. That's... interesting.

ejwsod36: /Everything around here, I have to do.

what? being not funny? You aced it.

They could make a Chia Pet of him and call it Hairman Mao or Chiamin Mao.

I believe that bunny has two pancakes on his head

ROFLMAO Zedong

jollyrancher82: Chairman Meow?


Close.
/blink

Did anyone else think it was hard to recognize lenin without the little round glasses?

I was confronted by this thing the other day when I went to the Richmond Rona hardware store (Local equivalent of Home Depot) right across the street. Truly a WTF moment when you're looking to pick up some 2" ABS pipe and instead see a shiny communist leader.

Too bad they took the StreetView pics earlier in the year: http://tinyurl.com/ycags52

I may not know art, but I know a big hunk of ugly when I see it...

A what (NSFW) on his head?

Bad investment?

The Gallery bought "Voice of Fire" for 1.76 million. It is considered one of Barnett Newman's most important works, and seminal in contemporary art.

Last year .. during the recession ... a Newman ink on paper 14 x 10 in. sketch .. sold for 1.8 million.

conservative estimates of Voice of Fire these days? 15 - 20 million.

yeah.

Bad investment.

I don't know art, but I know that's idiotic.

bobboberts: "Voice of Fire"

I like it.

One of my favorite installations was in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art I think. It was just a set of giant colored squares, one on each wall. It really brought the whole room together.

But I wouldn't pay millions for it, certainly.

heyheyjerky: By that standard the goat that se at .cx is one of the greatest works in the past few decades. Also since people complaining about being overcharged for juvenile crap makes something art then there are many overlooked artists in the contracting community. I think whoever is in charge of the "Big Dig" is the next DaVinci.

I'd put that in my front yard in a heartbeat.

Modern art...
...makes me...
...want to ROCK OUT!

GaryPDX: Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Vladimir Lenin

Electrification of the whole country is communism without soviet power

heh heh heh he said head.

Man... reading the comments about this sculpture in the local newspaper there, it's unsettling how many people miss the blatantly obvious symbolism of the sculpture. It's mocking communism (or at least Mao), not promoting it. It's as if the people criticizing it haven't actually seen it, but just read the media reports.

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Vladimir Lenin"

/phwew, that's a relief to hear that there's no trouble with our currency, then. *rests easy*