Here's a pro tip for all you aspiring political activist/artists out there: If you want to attack an opponent with a piece of art, it's probably best not to focus upon an attribute that not only endeared him to his fans, but became such a cultural phenomenon in its own right that even the comrades at CNN had to report it.
Or, I suppose you can take the other route instead and emerge from your protective armored bubble just long enough to drop this phenomenally tone-deaf piece of activist art on the National Mall featuring President Trump doing his famous dance. I had to check it out for myself, of course, given sculpture is an inherently 3-D medium and best appreciated in...
Yeah. Not exactly blowing me away. Maybe a closer look.
Ah, I see, it's an old television spray painted gold with a short loop of video of Trump doing his dance in various settings.
It's basically a Trump ad campaign attempting to be protest art.
And that's the problem for the artist. Even the gaudy gold paint misses the mockery mark. Everyone knows Trump's taste is over the top.
Look, I've been to Trump Tower in New York. Restrained it is not.
This is what his fans love about him. They don't have to guess who he is or read between the lines. Love him or hate him, he is 100% authentic.
No matter, the media did their best to depict this as anti-Trump art as the artist clearly intended it to be like the good little stenographers they are.
Members of the media, who are as corrupt as they are stupid, are trying every spin they can think of to control the narrative. And so along with the headlines instructing their readers that the piece was clearly anti-Trump they moved on to the tried-and-true method of depicting him as upset as validation the attack hit its mark.
You see, the White House is outraged!
No wait, they can do better.
The White House is "absolutely fuming!!"
That might not be enough. But what's worse than fuming?
Seething!!!!!! The White House Seethes!!!!!!!
You know you're in trouble when you're seething.
I read over a half a dozen of these outraged fuming seething articles and they all cited the same quote by White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson as proof of the fuming and seething and I'm starting to think English isn't any of these reporters' first language. Or second.
Wow, these liberal activists masquerading as "artists" are dumber than I thought!' she told the Washington Post.
'I've tricked them into taking down their ugly sculpture and replacing it with a beautiful video of the president's legendary dance moves that will bring joy and inspiration to all tourists traversing our National Mall.
'Maybe they will put this on their next sculpture.'
That's not outrage, or fuming or seething. It's mockery. Real mockery. The kind that lands.
The Daily Mail preceded the quote with this:
She didn't appear amused by being the butt of a new joke either.
Yeah, she's the one missing the point. Not you. You are way too sophisticated for that, of course.
Jackson's reference to placing her new quote on the next statue was a nod to the plaque that appeared on the pedestal quoting her opinion on a previous work that appeared a short while ago in the same spot.
In the United States of America you have the freedom to display your so-called "art," no matter how ugly it is.
Alas, I was out of town when that one appeared so couldn't check it out for myself. It appears it was... not subtle.
You might have noticed in some of the pieces above that the Media decided to focus on the brief glimpse we get of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Many outlets led with that approach. Here is what the video showed for no more than two seconds of its 15 or so second run time.
Honestly, not sure if that's a road you want to go down given the many figures who were associated with Epstein who did not publicly distance themselves from him years earlier.
Not only that, how many people are even going to recognize that ancient picture? I originally wondered why the artist included a picture of John Kerry with Beto O'Rourke.
So, what was the purpose of the sculpture? According to the permit filed with the National Park Service, it was "demonstrating 'freedom of speech and artistic expression using political imagery,'" which is exactly what you tell the National Park Service when you need a permit.
Of course, the art community had to weigh in, and because it's the art community, it also led with the Epstein angle.
Seriously, guys, you sure you want to go there?
The article in The Art Newspaper describes the piece as a "satirical sculpture" and a "satirical piece" (they really feel the need to hammer home the satirical angle, a sign they know it's not) and a "biting, anonymous sculpture."
We're talking about a video of Trump dancing along with a decades-old picture of Epstein finished off with a rattle can of gold spray paint. This is the stuff of a 7th-grade art show. It's equivalent to Architectural Digest waxing rhapsodically over one of my old Lego houses.
You know, I have to admit, the windows do suggest a certain rejection of the symmetrical aesthetic therefore creating an ambiguity of purpose that challenges traditional understandings of design.
Or, you know, not.
The sculpture will be on display only through the weekend, however, the "mysterious" artist will no doubt strike again with his or her (or them or it or xi or whatever) poignant artistic political insights. What more must the Trump White House endure from these withering attacks? A scathing piece portraying the unmitigated disaster of a peaceful border devoid of Tren de Aragua members? The tragedy of an Iran shorn of nuclear weapons? The national shameful record increases in blue collar wages?
Can't wait to find out.
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