| Author | Message | ||
     Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 2525 Registered: 7-2002  |
...and where would you suggest it to be placed? | ||
| Robert Livingston Citizen Username: Rob_livingston Post Number: 1778 Registered: 7-2004  |
After seeing the photo of it, I'll go with the recycling center. | ||
| Hillsider Supporter Username: Hillsider Post Number: 59 Registered: 3-2004 |
Yes, if it is < 5% of the Village budget... | ||
| Scully Citizen Username: Scully Post Number: 233 Registered: 8-2005 |
NO !!!!!! | ||
| KRNL Citizen Username: Krnl Post Number: 33 Registered: 9-2005 |
Recylcing Center is a good suggestion--but, only if Maplewood was paid $250,000 per year to accept it. | ||
| McMem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 5900 Registered: 5-2001  |
What does it look like? | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 2529 Registered: 7-2002 |
a hunk o'junk, according to some, fugly according to me.   | ||
| Robert Livingston Citizen Username: Rob_livingston Post Number: 1782 Registered: 7-2004 |
Is SO really tearing down a gazebo for that? At taxpayers expense? I find this shocking. | ||
| McMem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 5906 Registered: 5-2001 |
Is that a bus stop shelter? I don't think Maplewood needs that, whatever it is. Thanks anyway. | ||
| dave23 Citizen Username: Dave23 Post Number: 1512 Registered: 5-2001 |
We'll take it as long as SO pays for it. | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 1400 Registered: 10-2002  |
Yeah, that thing would fit right in with the Dickens Village  | ||
| LazyDog Citizen Username: Lazydog Post Number: 189 Registered: 6-2005  |
when's it going to be finished ? | ||
| extuscan Citizen Username: Extuscan Post Number: 627 Registered: 6-2001 |
That is the ugliest hunk of •••• I have ever seen. I promise I will vandalize it every night until it is gone. It doesn't belong in Maplewood, it doesn't belong in South Orange. It has ZERO artistic merit. It's CRAP. -John | ||
| Frederick Schmid Citizen Username: Carlfrederick Post Number: 15 Registered: 3-2006 |
Quite interesting sculpture. Something SO will be proud to have in its community along with a much needed performing art facility. Congrads to the leadership who has the foresight to see beyond simple reactions. Frederick | ||
| Joan Supporter Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 7130 Registered: 5-2001 |
Follow-up question: If it were a choice between Maplewood getting the cell tower or the Tony Smith sculpture, which would you choose? | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 2536 Registered: 7-2002 |
the tower, at least it has a use, and it's on the golf course, that I will never be a member of. | ||
| Just The Aunt Supporter Username: Auntof13 Post Number: 4370 Registered: 1-2004  |
Fred- Would you feel the same way if you knew the tax payers of South Oange were misled and it's costing us around $250,000 for this 'gift?' I' curious, how much will you be donating towards this piece of art? I'd rather have a cell tower, at least it wouldn't cost the taxpayers anything. | ||
| Blew Citizen Username: Alleygater Post Number: 1346 Registered: 10-2004  |
That sculpture is a big giant turd. What a waste of taxpayers money. Not with my money. Any idiot can see that isn't art. That is shite, I tell ya. Yuck. I think I'm going to be sick. Monster you are a horrible person for even suggesting that we pay for that refuse. | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 2539 Registered: 7-2002 |
I wasn't suggesting we pay for it, I thought we could take it off of SO's hands after they pay for it, then take it to the recycling center. | ||
| Deidra Citizen Username: Deidralynn Post Number: 519 Registered: 6-2004  |
 ...keep 'em comin'! This thread is too funny! I especially liked McMem's "bus shelter" suggestion. | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese Post Number: 1008 Registered: 7-2004  |
The dogs will love it! That's quite a large target to pee on. (I shouldn't say only dogs, because Monster may pee on it too.) | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 2543 Registered: 7-2002 |
yep | ||
| Crazy_quilter Citizen Username: Crazy_quilter Post Number: 223 Registered: 2-2005 |
or Thomas Kinkade. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-kinkade5mar05,0,1266147.story | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 2552 Registered: 7-2002 |
hahahaha...CODPIECE!! sounds like he would be fun at a party
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| Blew Citizen Username: Alleygater Post Number: 1355 Registered: 10-2004 |
Recycling is too good for that garbage. | ||
| hch Citizen Username: Hch Post Number: 225 Registered: 8-2002 |
Rain shelter for dogs in often-proposed dog run in Memorial Park. | ||
| The Dub Citizen Username: Hill_16 Post Number: 6 Registered: 10-2005 |
is it T for Tony - where is the S | ||
| teddytwotimes Citizen Username: Anothernewguy Post Number: 19 Registered: 6-2005  |
wow - alot of vitriol over public art. I think its a beautiful modern sculpture from an important SO native. Where is the cultural sophistication I've heard so much about ? | ||
| Alleygater Citizen Username: Alleygater Post Number: 1466 Registered: 10-2004 |
A few people LITERALLY beat it right out of me. | ||
| Rastro Citizen Username: Rastro Post Number: 2676 Registered: 5-2004  |
Literally? They found you and beat you up until you had no more cultural sophistication? Off to the Pet Peeves thread... | ||
| Just The Aunt Supporter Username: Auntof13 Post Number: 4514 Registered: 1-2004 |
But Teddy and Alley- It's not thats we don't like Art, it's more the BOT LIED and left out certain informaitn on purpose (which is the same as LYING) to those of us who live in South Orange. The BOT has NO RIGHT to be spending a HALF MILLION DOLLARS on the right to fabricate a statue (that will continue to cost us money for years to come) when there are so many unfinished projects in our town as well as much needed attention to the library, firehoue, stone house etc. They should come first, before this piece of 'art.' Sorry, that's the way many people feel. However, maybe we could convince our BOT to sell it to Maplewood? (nothing personal you guys, still like you and all) | ||
| kathleen Citizen Username: Symbolic Post Number: 467 Registered: 3-2005 |
teddytwotimes is absolutely right in saying the Smith sculpture is beautiful and this thread is depressing for its yahooism about modern art. I've followed the story and I understand that officials in South Orange village weren't dilligent before voting on the funding, but that's not what people are acting like monkeys about on MOL. If Maplewood had produced an artist of Smith's calibre and significance, I would hope that art would be displayed in our town. | ||
| Hank Zona Supporter Username: Hankzona Post Number: 5369 Registered: 3-2002 |
Asher Durand? Any of his works displayed in Maplewood? He's pretty significant. Personally, Im not pondering where Id like to see the Tony Smith sculpture placed if it was in Maplewood, but who I'd like to see it placed on in Maplewood. | ||
| tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 4643 Registered: 5-2001 |
"yahooism" is the perfect word, thanks Kathleen. | ||
| teddytwotimes Citizen Username: Anothernewguy Post Number: 21 Registered: 6-2005 |
Just the Aunt, you bring up a valid point about public funds appropriation. I dont know the backstory of the funding of this project. Still, there is always something else to spend money on...but can we afford to live without art? I know I couldn't in my home. Whether or not you are fond of this particular piece, couldnt we agree that art is more useful than a cellphone tower? | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 2653 Registered: 7-2002 |
beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that statue sure as heck isn't a beauty. I still say it's just plain fugly. I would rather look at some life sized sculptures akin to the Max Kalish sculptures in the image below. What would be great for both towns would be a Sculpture Park like the one in Clifton, http://www.sculpture.org/documents/parksdir/p&g/clifton/clifton.shtml I haven't been there in a while, but when I lived there I went all the time with my daughter.  | ||
| teddytwotimes Citizen Username: Anothernewguy Post Number: 22 Registered: 6-2005 |
who said anything about beauty. beauty is not a prerequisite for art. you are thinking of "decoration" or "ornament". | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 2665 Registered: 7-2002 |
Teddy, you said it was a beauty http://www.southorangevillage.com/cgi-bin/show.cgi?tpc=3132&post=570336#POST5703 36
and I didn't say anything about putting something beautiful anywhere, I just said that piece of crap Tau isn't a beauty, and I would rather see something else. http://www.southorangevillage.com/cgi-bin/show.cgi?tpc=3132&post=571383#POST5713 83 | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 9051 Registered: 4-1997  |
Durand's masterpiece Kindred Spirits recently sold to a member of the Wal-Mart clan for about $35 million, the highest price ever paid for an American artist's work. Be glad Maplewood isn't bonding to aquire it! If anyone was following the SO sculpture topic more closely, they'd learn it's not about the value of art, but about honesty in government, open public debate and democracy. | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 2668 Registered: 7-2002 |
I think we can all agree that the government of SO has been grossly dishonest and misleading in regards to the statue debacle, amongst other things. Now when will somebody start the ball rolling on some kind of lawsuit or recall action against the BOT and assorted involved cronies., that's the action I want to follow next. Perhaps the state should come and take over things like they did in Irvington (they did do that right, if I'm not mistaken,or was it another town, pretty sure it was Irvington). |
