Well, considering what was at that corner and block a year or two ago, it seems to me, a vast improvement overall, I guess, if you like the high rise expansion that has been happening, certainly brings in the beautiful people, in yellow. Wish they had more restaurant choices in that new plaza complex.

Wow, that is ugly.

In that second photo it looks like Superman.

Does anyone know who the sculptor/designer of this piece is?

Let me guess: The DC Arts and Humanities Commission funded and chose this monstrosity.

There was a commercial that used to be on tv a lot a few years ago. It was a psa for funding for the arts in schools and it had this little kid who didn’t have art in school and so he was this really, really rational, mature-for-his-years, not especially “joyful”, but mostly totally normal, if a little one-note kid. It was supposed to be a cautionary tale. I had to watch it several times before I got it because there didn’t seem to me to be anything wrong with the kid, so I wasn’t sure what the point was. When I finally “got it” I realized that my confusion was because that kid is a lot like me. I don’t “get” this sort of thing. I don’t necessarily think it’s ugly, I definitely don’t think it’s attractive – I just don’t understand the point. I don’t understand the point of putting something with no use in a perfectly fine open space. Open space is nice and uncluttered, why ruin that with something that serves no purpose? I guess I do find it fascinating that there are people who actually look at this and feel something – love, hate, whatever – rather than the indifference and/or confusion that strike me when I see something like this. (I don’t really get murals either. I don’t hate them, but I don’t understand the point. This is all probably why I have next to nothing on my walls at home.)

Maybe they were inspired by the Transformer movie.

Looks like something that you’d step on by accident and as you were pulling it out of your bloody foot you’d yell, “Who the f— left this on the floor???”
Or maybe an airplane that crashed into a bulldozer?
Is that lower part a bench? A backhauler? Maybe a portal to a very un-human-friendly dimension.

Of course, everyone’s entitled to their opinion. But people have said the EXACT same things about past artwork lauded as masterpieces now.

Your children, or children’s children might think something different.

divine, we dont have our grandchildren’s opinions, we have our own. they’re gonna see someone draw a straight like without an Apple product and they’ll piss themselves with confusion. those yet to be born miscreants dont know shit about quality art work.

and its not like this kind of sculpture is visionary. part of why it sucks is because its rehash, from a still crappier time. my father didnt like this kind of sculpture, and my fathers father didn’t.
My aunt likes it, but she collects hummels and crap, so she doesn’t count.
anyway, thats how long this kind of shit has been going down. its the urban renewal brutalism of sculpture. and not even the good weird soviet kind.

this piece fornicates with donkey genitalia.