You'd think with the Ebola panic, people would know better than to plop an 18' bronze bug into Madison Square Park.
Unsurprisingly, the park describes it differently, calling Liverpudlian Tony Cragg’s three-part Walks of Life "monumental" and describing it as "supplant[ing] any longstanding art historical division between abstraction and figuration: his sculptural innovation is to fuse both styles in one work and to make bronze into a malleable material."
I know ugliness isn't supposed to be part of the conversation about art, but how can I avoid it? Read More
Unsurprisingly, the park describes it differently, calling Liverpudlian Tony Cragg’s three-part Walks of Life "monumental" and describing it as "supplant[ing] any longstanding art historical division between abstraction and figuration: his sculptural innovation is to fuse both styles in one work and to make bronze into a malleable material."
I know ugliness isn't supposed to be part of the conversation about art, but how can I avoid it? Read More