A little girl's statue was installed in front of the Wall Street bull

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by Pekelo, Mar 8, 2017.

  1. Overnight

    Overnight

    You do know it is not actually on Wall Street, yes? It's on Broadway.
     
    #51     Mar 15, 2017

  2. You know Wall St is a region or area, not officially, but in financial parlance? U still getting royalties for the sax playing?
     
    #52     Mar 15, 2017
  3. vanzandt

    vanzandt

    Kinda like Main Street.
     
    #53     Mar 15, 2017
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  4. Exactly, lynyrd. Wonder what the gym teacher thought?
     
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    #54     Mar 15, 2017
  5. Overnight

    Overnight

    Did you know the "region or area" is actually called the "financial district", and that the bull is in Bowling Green? It's all in the parlance of our times, man! You ever actually lived in NYC? Or are you just trying to seem hip and cool? Stop with the posturing!
     
    #55     Mar 15, 2017
  6. Do the Bull and Bear have nicknames.....
     
    #56     Mar 15, 2017
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  7. Brilliant--

    I lived in weehawkin and commuted in for 5 years on the ferry.

    surf
     
    #57     Mar 15, 2017
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  8. java

    java

    People in the know just call it all The Big Apple. At least we do here in Naptown.
     
    #58     Mar 15, 2017
  9. vanzandt

    vanzandt

    More money selling real-estate I guess.
     
    #59     Mar 16, 2017
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  10. vanzandt

    vanzandt

    https://nypost.com/2017/05/29/pissed-off-artist-adds-statue-of-urinating-dog-next-to-fearless-girl/

    Pissed-off artist adds statue of urinating dog next to ‘Fearless Girl’

    Gee whiz, artists are so sensitive!

    City sculptor Alex Gardega — seething over the “Fearless Girl” statue being placed across from Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” — has decided to retaliate with a work of his own.

    Gardega created a statue of a small dog, titled “Pissing Pug,” and his sloppily crafted pooch takes direct aim at “Fearless Girl” — or, at least, at her left leg.

    “This is corporate nonsense,” Gardega told The Post of “Fearless Girl,” saying it was put opposite artist Arturo Di Modica’s famed bull as a publicity stunt by a Boston-based financial firm.
    Alex Gardena next to “Fearless Girl” and his “Pissing Pug”Gabriella Bass

    “It has nothing to do with feminism, and it is disrespect to the artist that made the bull,” he said. “That bull had integrity.”

    The Upper West Side artist sniffed that he even made his dog particularly poorly just to stick it to “Fearless Girl” even more.

    “I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull,” said Gardega, who has never met the other statues’ creators.

    But many female passers-by Monday said “Fearless Girl” has come to represent women taking on Wall Street — and just about anybody else standing up to financial firms — and that Gardega’s peeing dog is misogynistic.

    “That’s an a–hole move. You call this art?” said one woman, who kicked the dog statue as she walked by.

    But Gardega insisted that he is “pro-feminism” and has “nothing against the sculptor whatsoever.”

    Some people appreciated his artistic statement — once he explained it.

    “I respect his opinion . . . and that’s really cool,” said tourist Pam Guadarrama, 24, visiting from California.
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    Bull sculptor Di Modica is no fan of “Fearless Girl,” either, having said that placing the statue of the child opposite his bull unfairly implicates his creation.

    But he refused to comment on Gardega’s “Pissing Pug.”

    Di Modica is suing State Street Global Advisors, the mutual fund company that placed “Fearless Girl” opposite his work, for trademark and copyright infringement.

    “Fearless Girl” was placed opposite Di Modica’s bull in March for International Women’s Day on a temporary permit — which Mayor Bill de Blasio then extended for 11 months after pressure from women’s groups to keep it around longer.

    Its creator, Kristen Visbal, did not respond to requests for comment on “Pissing Pug.”
     
    #60     May 30, 2017