Urinating Sketchy Dog Statue Appears Next to Fearless Girl

[oberliner]

Wall Street is going to the dogs — or at least it did for a few hours on Monday.

That's when artist Alex Gardega installed a pug statue called "Sketchy Dog," which appeared to be urinating on the "Fearless Girl" statue's leg.

"Most people were amused or perplexed by it," Gardega told NBC News. "Kids petted it, people were taking pictures with it. A few were upset and kicked it."

Gardega said he created his clay and faux bronze "Sketchy Dog" as an act of solidarity with guerilla artist Arturo Di Modica, who created Wall Street's iconic "Charging Bull" statue.

"I have a lot of empathy for the creator of the bull, Arturo. He is very upset," Gardega said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/urinating-sketchy-dog-statue-appears-next-fearless-girl-n766071

[MissB]

1. Next up: an artist creates a T-Rex statue that appears

to be going for the dog.

It's art, I guess.

[shenmue]

2. :(

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[leftynyc]

3. What a freeking child

Sick to death of these degenerate donnie voters.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. I would like to see his green card.

[Leith]

4. Heaven Forbid That We Have a Positive Image of The Powerless

Sketchy Dog is tacky and insulting. Fearless Girl is neither of those things.

[Me.]

6. Totally Agree

These guys seem to be threatened by a strong girl who is ready to take on a bull...y

[csziggy]

18. Or a strong girl who is ready to take on bullshit nt

[Me.]

20. Either Works For Me

[Guilded Lilly]

5. The thing about art. You can't dictate anything but the space it occupies.

As much as I think the peeing pug is grade school crass and more misogynistic than the creator will ever admit ( because if he really WAS upset about artistic encroachment, he wouldn't have encroached either)...
he had his freedom of artistic moments of fame and his "opinion" was so noted.

[gratuitous]

7. Quote from Gardega in the story

"I'm a pretty happy person, not seething or angry and certainly not anti-feminist. My piece is not without a sense of humor but I do feel for Arturo and the integrity of his art," Gardega said. "There is plenty of room for 'Fearless Girl.' It just interferes with another artist's work/vision."

Yeah, for a happy person, not seething or angry and certainly not anti-feminist, Gardega managed to bullseye the seething anger against women that has exploded in the last 10 months, but he's not any of those things. Ri-i-i-i-ight.

[Me.]

19. And His Expression Of His Feelings Is

to pee on a girl. If it walks like a duck......

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Men's whiny reactions to this statue have been really telling in so many ways.

[Warpy]

15. They have. A "fearless boy" might have drawn a whine or two from the bull sculptor

for intruding on his creative magnificence, but it wouldn't have drawn this from a tacky man who hates women.

[procon]

9. That's not a dog, look at the thing, it's obviously a cat with a big fluffy tail.

That kitteh loves "Fearless Girl"!

[DK504]

10. This asshole puts up a stature of a dog pissing on the "Fearless Girl".

Well that speaks volumes about this POS. Di Modica needs to grow the fuck up and quit crying like a baby without his binky. Gardega deserves a good kick in his teeny tiny dick.

[ProudLib72]

11. Just get rid of the bull

As long as we are getting rid of Confederate statues because they symbolize something nasty, let's get rid of a bull that has come to symbolize male dominance.

[AngryAmish]

13. We need a revolution in our culture

Too many old and crass artworks out there.

[Warpy]

16. Yes, the permit to exhibit it has long expired

and attempts to sell it have failed. Try to get Merrill Lynch to donate a patch of concrete to set it on, it's their dumb symbol.

[linuxman]

17. The bull symbolizes strong/favorable market conditions

Hence bull/bear market.

It was constructed after a market crash to symbolize hope for a strong market in the future/recovery from the crash.

I'm honestly puzzled where you got "male dominance" from.

[ProudLib72]

24. I wrote "come to symbolize"

And since the artist and his buddies are all pissy about the fearless girl statue as well, I wouldn't feel badly about removing it.

[linuxman]

30. Again, not sure why you think it has come to symbolize that.

Me and some randos on the internet saying the Washington monument represents rape culture doesn't make it so.

The girl statue seems pretty pointless on it's own, as it depends on the work of someone else to make its point. Removing the bull would be even dumber than pretending it represented masculinity or whatever the suggestion was in the first place, as then you just have some girl standing in front of nothing with her hands on her hips.

[Warpy]

28. The artist's prolonged hissy fit did that

[3catwoman3]

12. Tacky, tacky, tacky.

How utterly juvenile (with apologies to juveniles).

Why is the creator of the bull upset?

[oberliner]

22. The creator of the bull is upset because it looks like the bull is attacking the girl

And that the placing of the girl in front of the bull changes the meaning of the bull sculpture, without permission of the artist.

[0rganism]

21. next up: animal control officer statue approaching from behind the dog

seems like this could go back and forth for several iterations, generating work for sculptors all over NYC

[AgadorSparticus]

23. I like that idea!

[WillowTree]

25. It's turning into a pissing contest. Literally.

[nini]

26. Honestly.. the maturity level of most people these days is scary

Who gave him permission to put it there? He must have gotten the ok from the landowners etc?

This is so childish.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

27. We need to add a cat statue scratching the dogs nose. And another cat going after the bull.

[melman]

29. It's not there anymore

It was only there for three hours. Total non-story.