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This Monumental ‘Oracle’ Statue in NYC Subverts Traditional Sculpture - Part of an ongoing exhibition at Rockefeller Center, Sanford Biggers’ newest installation challenges the tropes of classical artwork (www.smithsonianmag.com)
posted 5 years ago by xleb2 5 years ago by xleb2 +31 / -0
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– xleb2 [S] 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

I don't think you read the article bub. This art has a qr code,

In the coming weeks, reports Artnet News, visitors will be able to activate a QR code near the sculpture and literally ask the “oracle” figure a question. They may then receive an answer from one of several unnamed celebrities, who will take turns answering queries with “mysterious, poetic vagaries"

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– Knife-TotingRat 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

So it's not about "art" at all, it's about something else entirely.

That just makes that sculpture just that much more hideous and grotesque. The hideousness and grotesqueness of it are truly deeper than the skin of it.

Oracle, eh? Yeah.

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– reidj 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

You can read the artist's own word here. Spoilers: Basically, it's there to make the statement that art is racist.

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– Knife-TotingRat 8 points 5 years ago +8 / -0

Watch it become an idol. And I mean in the strictest, most fundamentalist sense of that word.

A big, ugly, humanoid Magic 8 Ball that spews prophecy and feel-good words from the Modern Priesthood? Yeah. Oracle. The sheeple will line up for it. Watch for the whackadoodle "religious revelation" stuff if the thing actually attracts the crowd it's meant to.

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– ailurus 9 points 5 years ago +9 / -0

That just makes it even worse. So not only do you get crappy art, but you get celebrities virtue-signaling to you too. Wonderful.

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– ArtemisFoul 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

I can't wait for the code to appear on 4chan lmao

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– realerfunction 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

this changes EVERYTHING

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