Stephen C. Bedell captured the scene at the Embrace on the Common on the most appropriate of days.
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Still hideous.
By Lee
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 7:04pm
Even with snow.
No, this might be an
By Rob
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 7:22pm
No, this might be an improvement.
It looks like an abstract representation of Dr King face-palming in horror at what this nation is doing to itself.
Need a thumb up
By BostonDog
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 7:35pm
I see what you mean although to me it just looks sugar frosted.
So emblematic of contemporary
By Frelmont
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 9:37pm
So emblematic of contemporary Boston Massachusetts. This monstrosity offends no one. (Save for our inner artists.) Can you imagine the beautiful Reverend King standing larger than life, or 1:1 in bronze on the Common? This work honors the artist not the subject. This work is self-congratulatory.
Maybe this version of “The Greendale Human Being” typifies the thinking and lack of courage of some civic leaders, but even if “The Embrace” expands symbolically beyond Mrs. King, honoring the man with a proper statue would embrace for more meaning than this blob.
“Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest night.” -Martin Luther King
Art is in the eye of the beholder
By MassMouse
Tue, 01/21/2025 - 12:18pm
Thanks for posting this!
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