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General Henry Warner Slocum

sculpted by Frederick William MacMonnies — Lots of white guys on horses riding around the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. I didn’t notice any memorialization of slavery. In 1905, New York City unveiled the bronze statue of General Slocum with President Theodore Roosevelt as the keynote speaker. Slocum’s horse displays the raised front leg, a symbol of victory.

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faux Spock

on foot NYC — Faux Spock, people on their devices and a pile of buildings…

Ideal World

would like to provide attribution — The donkey and the elephant go head to head. Early Disney style. Wise and hearty, wordless, desexed, true…(14th Street station sculpture by Tom Otterness

Flatbush Avenue

Major General William Tecumseh Sherman laid the cornerstone of the triumphal arch at Grand Army Plaza in 1889. According to one account, art critics did not approve of the final result.

o'Donovan/Lincoln, Eakins/horse — President Abraham (NMI) Lincoln sits his horse.

trigger warning

Neptune/Poseidon — This monument makes Matilda uncomfortable, she had relatives who drowned. She’d like to see it taken down.(Bailey Fountain, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)

Remorse in advance is efficient?

whitney front desk — Sign at the Whitney. I didn’t wait around for other wisdom.

Roberto

xxxxxx — On the roof of the Whitney, bright spot on a rainy day.
On religion. “All religions are the same. Do not harm anyone over religion.”–Roberto Monticello

Tony Matelli’s “Sleepwalker”

underwear man & schoolgirls — Tony Matelli‘s underwear-clad sculpture of a sleepwalking man was at the center of controversy on a college campus in 2014, with outraged students launching a petition for its removal. —Hili Perlson

(We are having a sculpture controversy in Charlottesville as well but underwear is not involved. People see different things in a statue. NYT had the story.)

Helen

emma reflected twice — walked north to the intersection of the St. John’s River and the Atlantic Ocean

taking no chances

public bathroom Portland OR — (Oregon. Public bathroom. An abundance of TP. Someone is planning ahead.)

“Making toilet paper from the trees
Manufacturers don’t use all types of trees to make paper. Toilet paper is generally made from “virgin” paper, using a combination of softwood and hardwood trees (a combination of approximately 70% hardwood and 30% softwood).”–Toiletpaperhistory.net