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Not David, now in Times Square.
A bronze statue of a sloppily-dressed, overweight black woman with braided hair now stands defiantly, hands on her ample hips, in Manhattan's Times Square, for reasons known only to the artist and whoever he convinced to put it there. Entitled "Grounded in the Stars," the 12-foot-high work was installed yesterday and will remain there until June 17. Meant to "celebrate marginalized people and bodies," and coincidentally compensate for all the statues of white men everywhere, artist Thomas J Price says his work is "a nod to Michelangelo's David."
All I can say about that is "Ha, ha -- somebody get that man some glasses!"
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