All over LA, there are some supposed Guerrilla installations of a pretty basic Statue of Liberty image and the year 1969. Check out this article for more.
OK, no big deal, right? Just some art, right? WRONG. This exact, boring, exploitative image is plastered all over every third giant building in LA, AND, it has nothing to do with art, but rather, an exercise in greed and an attempt to raise advertising dollars. It seems LA has put a moratorium on blanketing every available surface with advertisements. So as an "Artistic Response", these lame ass excuses for expression have started popping up everywhere as "ART" in an attempt to grandfather the spaces in, so that they can later be peppered with paid advertisements. I'd call the blatant misrepresentation of the Statue of Liberty a new low in Art, but that would be A. caling it Art, and B. giving it acclaim, even if, it's "a new low". Basically, it's just fucking shameful. And the scumbags that would degrade the Statue of Liberty so they can make some dough should have their asses dragged back to Ellis Island, shown the ledger where their poor immigrant ancestors came into this country, and kicked in the ass for exploiting it.
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