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 - Kotaku In Action 2

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)

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– reidj 6 points 3 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 3 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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