Hideous public art and sculptures

The Crawling Babies of Prague give me nightmares.

Turkmenistan's president's ode to himself.

The OP is so ugly, I don't know how long I can go on looking at it.

I hate the "Life Underground" sculpture in the Union Sq subway station

I sort of love the malevolent audaciousness of the Denver airport horse sculpture, but others hate/fear it, so I'll just add it here.

The North Korean dictator statues.

Male/Female is a 15.5-meter (51 ft) tall hollow stainless steel sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky standing at the entrance to Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts intersecting colossal male and female forms with pulsing light-emitting diode light.

"Male/Female" gets a lot of attention strictly on its artistic merits, and much of it isn't very positive, especially concerning its setting in front of the Beaux–Arts railroad station. This drives its proponents up the wall."

It is FIFTY ONE FEET TALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lucille Ball statue in her hometown

R8, oh no. What happened to Lucille's face? She looks like a man who survived a mustard gas attack.

The Father & Son sculpture at Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park. It gets a lot of love but I find it visually awkward.

Calgary's big blue ring

These things in the Des Moines Pappajohn Sculpture Park.

This finger.

Belarus' monument to WWII.

I would advise municipalities who have the urge to spend money on public art that they instead install a public fountain in a dedicated park somewhere. Even if the fountain is ugly there is something about the sound of falling water that people find soothing.

A lot of people think this is kitschy.

R16, tacky.

Your momma?

One can never get enough of Seward Johnson's brilliant work.

I was reading about the creepy "Life Underground" and the artist, Tom Otterness:

Otterness adopted a dog from an animal shelter and filmed himself tying it to a tree and shooting it in the head, titling the piece Shot Dog Film (1977).

Why am I not surprised that the sculptor of those creepy faceless blobs in the 14th St subway station would do something like this?

I'll just leave this here.

The fat Botero sculptures in Colombia

Leuven, Belgium

This fucking thing.

I loathe Romero Britto. Loathe him.

^ Apparently I was so appalled by Britto that I couldn’t post the link correctly.

R24 Cloud Gate/ The bean is kind of quirky and fun, but for 23 million dollars it seems like they could have came up with something...else.

Daley Plaza.

That's where they got that Picasso.

Yep.

Am I in Milwaukee or East Germany? I don't know!

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Mongolia's over the top tribute to Genghis Khan.

R14, is he supposed to look like a giant mountain turtle?

R32, here's a little context behind that monument. It looks to me like a more ominous Mt. Rushmore.

[quote] The stern face of a Red Army soldier frowns down at the ruins of Brest Fortress, shattered by the Nazis' surprise attack in 1941. The defenders, surrounded, outnumbered and with no prospect of relief, fought on stubbornly and held up the German advance for several days. In recognition of this action, Brest earned the title "hero fortress." The laurel echoes the "hero city" titles given to Moscow, Leningrad (now St Petersburg), and Stalingrad (now Volgograd), sites of bloody and protracted battles that ultimately thwarted Hitler's invasion.

How about a 40 foot stainless steel nude Ciccolina by Jeff Koons, squatting in front of the Seattle Art Museum. It was proposed, once upon a time.

R27 I think the beauty of the Bean is in its simplicity and chameleonlike character. It shifts between disappearing into its surroundings and standing apart, depending on the light. I’ve always loved how it looks like a giant droplet of mercury that has just touched down.

This.