Wow, that is an impressive stunt ("stunt" isn't quite right, but it's better than "prank" perhaps "hack" would be better)!
(Also, from the sidebar links on that page, this was good).
There's a lot of good stuff there, and this isn't a comment on this particular piece, but it's remarkable how in my mind "Brooklyn-based" is now nearly synonymous with "this will suck."
Volunteer curation, I think, is a reasonable term to use.
Looks like the bust has been taken down, too bad.
The article didn't say what it was made from-- if bronze, then that is indeed pretty impressive.
There's a link in the article to a fuller story of its creation; it wasn't bronze.
Not to be slinging accusations of fascism and police statism and all, but it took mere hours for a pretty decent representation of Snowden to be taken down, while people have been campaigning for years to remove a hideous insult to another great American.
I thought 8 was going to be a link to Richmond's statue of Arthur Ashe, who appears to be threatening small children with a book and tennis racket.
To me it looks more like: "You want these? Can't have 'em! Nyah, nyah, nyah!"
I could get behind a statue of Lucille Ball beating kids with a tennis racket.
But yes, it appears that the park service has priorities. They ripped out all of the sod in a big chunk of Cadman Plaza in, I think, 2004, and when I finally left Dumbo in 2007 it was still a mud pit. But at least they are on top of the threat of unauthorized statuary.
10, at least one of those kids is clearly cowering.
Statue replaced with a hologram, however temporarily.
