Leftist propaganda assumes a particular style: kitschy, smug, and above all, ugly. And in this case, a strange resemblance to Democratic New York Attorney General Leticia James.
The most recent idol to mediocrity is a 12-foot-tall bronze sculpture of a hefty woman with short, braided hair, erected in Times Square. Blame for the creature goes to Thomas J. Price, who is “reimagin[ing] both the monument and monumentality,” according to the Times Square Official Website. No one would dispute the monumental girth of Price’s everywoman.
Soon? https://t.co/TDLu2AAYIj pic.twitter.com/hNY9zIA8Re
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 7, 2025
Her stance is an allusion to Michelangelo’s David, suggests the website, but one which “disrupts traditional ideas around what defines a triumphant figure and challenges who should be rendered immortal.”
This invites a comparison which could only embarrass Price (and whoever saw fit to feature his statue). David reveals the particular deficiencies of this statue and of all art which is undertaken for the purpose of vaunting the ugly and undifferentiated to the height of worship. (RELATED: SANDOVAL: Liberals Can’t Stand This Photo Of Trump Or What It Symbolizes)
David is a technical masterpiece. Michelangelo demonstrates a surgical knowledge of the human form, rendering even the veins of the hand in precise and perfect manner. Consider, too, the enormous challenge of carving a man from marble. It is a medium which does not tolerate mistakes.
Wait did they really put up a giant gold statue of a random black woman looking at her phone? https://t.co/A3YjElztOC
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 7, 2025
Price’s statue is less ambitious, despite being cast in bronze. He includes just enough draping in the woman’s plain shirt and pants to suggest the misshapen lumps beneath. Her stare is glassy. The rest of her face is equally blank. The scarce emotion suggested by the figure rests in her hands, sassily cocked on her hips. Price delivers a very unflattering personification of modern femininity: chubby, SSRI-eyed, at once attention-demanding but perpetually scornful. Leftists occasionally excel at unwitting misogyny.
Here is the most important difference between Michelangelo’s David and Price’s Random Female: David is aspirational. He in no way “represents” the masses. His physical prowess is paralleled by an equally remarkable spirit, per his biblical defeat of Goliath.
All monuments affirm hierarchy. They insist on the value of their subject: “This is worth memorializing, worth the physical space it occupies, worth your attention more so than anything in the surrounding area.” Price’s monument doesn’t so much as do away with natural order as invert it. His bland vision for the future is shared, apparently, by artificial intelligence. Recent experiments with AI have yielded a curious convergent phenotype:
Another gpt-image feedback loop: “Generate the same photo 5 seconds into the future.”
Starting with distracted boyfriend meme. pic.twitter.com/xT1lOfibKy
— Gene Kogan (@genekogan) April 26, 2025
Price’s statue is on display through June 17. If you’re the sort of person who loves being scolded at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), it’s worth a visit.
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