There's an art installation of what looks like a satellite crashed into the hood of an Altima parked on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing (not to be confused with one of the art installations that look like giant pink blobby guys). Of course, you're not supposed to park on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing, even if a satellite just crashed into you car, so somebody at BTD wrote it a ticket.
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NOT ART.
By Frelmont
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 3:54pm
NOT ART.
It’s not even part of the solipsistic “NOT ART” graffiti campaign.
Will they get another ticket for littering ...
By Friartuck
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 4:27pm
When they set it on the sidewalk and drive off?
A parking ticket on an art installation
By ScottB
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 4:33pm
Is entirely on-point for Boston. It'd be even better if BTD keeps putting additional tickets on the windshield or perhaps a boot.
As someone on reddit said
By BostonDog
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 4:37pm
It really adds to the installation. A+ for collaborative art.
It could only be more appropriate to Boston
By ScottB
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 4:58pm
If that satellite were plunked down in a half-shoveled parking space.
(And FWIW that would really be a SPACE saver.)
It would make a great space saver next time it snows
By hydeparkish
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 5:02pm
Oh ya! Let's get this party started.
The ticket becomes part of the artwork
By SamWack
Sat, 01/11/2025 - 5:50pm
and if it keeps accumulating new ones, it becomes performance art!
Who says it's an art installation?
By anon
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 5:16pm
Some person on Reddit says it's art. No further info or links. I say it's not art.
Furthermore it seems perfectly logical that a satellite would hit a car. Who says it is not?
From the link...
By Matthew Miller
Sat, 01/11/2025 - 6:45am
On the reddit post, there is a picture of (presumably nearby) signage describing the installation.
Speaking of not art
By anon
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 5:31pm
And while we're at it with public art that is not art, those strange animal head things that were up around DTX for the holidays were the most un-Christmas-y or un-festive-y looking things I've ever seen.
Ticket is part of the exhibit
By mg
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 6:12pm
Article in the Boston Globe says:
I saw them setting that up on Thursday
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 6:49pm
They intentionally put a ticket on it as they were unloading the space junk.
The BPD ticketing someone
By Anon
Fri, 01/10/2025 - 7:44pm
The BPD ticketing someone illegally parking in a pedestrian zone was a dead giveaway this was fake.
It reminds me of the janitor
By StillFromDorchester
Sun, 01/12/2025 - 10:04pm
Who cleaned up trash on the floor only to realize someone put it there and called it art.
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