Hot Dog Phallic is what I'd name this new piece of public art in Mile High City. A Christmas Tree would look better, but gee. This is permanent stuff. Plus, the name the artist gave it is stupid. National Velvet? Really? If this was street art in NYC, would you say, "meet me by the National Velvet?" Denver, you've gone too far. Or maybe not. Maybe I need to stretch a bit.
Is the audience and the artist in the same universe, one critic might ask, pointing fingers at why public art is missing in San Francisco.
Update: Called "National Velvet by artist John McEnroe, the piece is near the I-25 pedestrian bridge in the highlands area of Denver and cost $53,000. Denver requires one percent of city money spent on construction projects over $100M going to art.
That is horrendous!
Link broken to see a larger photo or the details of it. Wonder where it is and who the artist is?
Posted by: janeywan | January 07, 2009 at 06:43 AM
OMG!! That is not what I would call art.
Posted by: allison | January 07, 2009 at 07:19 AM
I fixed the link -thanks for letting me know, Janeywan
Posted by: MotherPie | January 07, 2009 at 08:03 AM
LOL!!! Love the name you gave it!!! I am not sorry to say that I don't think it's art much less worth 53 thou!
San Francisco doesn't need art -- the bridge is art. Heck!! I tink the city itself is are!
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Posted by: Joyce | January 09, 2009 at 11:25 PM
This is just wrong in so many ways.
Posted by: Janet | January 28, 2009 at 08:55 AM