Sculpture of limitations
BALTIMORE, Md. — This was my first trip to Baltimore's Penn Station since the addition of the imposing "Male/Female" sculpture, which stands in front of the station pissing off locals.1
You can't tell from my nighttime picture, but the art work is a man on one side and a woman on the other side. My Balmer pal Jeremy hates it and wants to ride sculptor Jonathan Borofsky out of town on a rail. (Luckily, there's one near by.)
Anyway, I liked it.
1This is better, of course, than pissing on locals, which the sculpture is well positioned to do.
4 comments:
this sculpture is a piece of junk which desecrates the view of the wonderful entrance of penn station.
It's not just that the sculpture is a total piece of faux-deco garbage. It's that the scale of the figure is totally incongruent with the shape and architecture of the train station. It totally dwarfs the building rather than accenting it. Plus, the City of Baltimore paid the artist $750,000 for the damn thing.
That being said, we thank you for visiting our fair city and free-riding our transit system.
Hmmm. It says here that the financing came from the Municipal Arts Society of Baltimore, a private foundation.
And you believe everything you read...in the CITY PAPER?! Seriously, it's private organization, but you don't think they raise funding through municipal and state grants?
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