"āIām a pretty happy person, not seething or angry and certainly not anti-feminist.ā
Hmm.
Please tell me that the idiot in the articleās video (Matt Lauer?) doesnāt actually think āthe artist of Mona Lisa ā¦ā would be able to complain about a piece next to it. As far as Di Modica feeling his rights are being violated somehow, Iām assuming he missed the bit about where heās supposed to be a guerrilla artist?
You know what? Iām sorry this has been taken down, because it should keep going. I want someone to add a caricature of a Nazi sculpting the dog. I want a copy of The Thinker with a thought bubble reading āWhoever made this is stupidā, then another statue with a shirt that reads āNo YOUāRE a stupid!ā I want an Abraham Lincoln facepalming at them all, and a Richard Nixon giving him rabbit ears, and a crying Statue of Liberty, and a grave labeled REAL ART. I want this park to become a gallery crowded with the most petty, jejune statuary the planet has ever imagined.
Come on, Americans. Wall Street deserves no less.
That would be epic. Letās send out the Banksy signal!
Absolutely!
āDi Modica finished āCharging Bullā after the 1987 stock market collapse, and placed it in front of the New York Stock Exchange as a symbol of American resilience.ā
So he picked one of the most common symbols of the stock market, built a conventional, aggressive take on it that the traders would love to bits and placed it in front of the NYSE?
Thatās a straightforward symbol of aggressive banking and finance, not āAmerican resilienceā. It could only have been more a sucking-up-to-the-financiers gesture if it was a golden parachute.
And in truth, enough ordinary Americans apparently also saw it as a symbol of aggressive finance, otherwise the ājokeā of the defiant girl wouldnāt be so popular - If the bull was truly seen as āa symbol of American resilienceā, that addition of the girl would have fallen flat and been seen as in bad taste, attacking a tribute to decent Americans, or worse.
Instead, itās the maker of the pissing dog that (letās remember) is attempting to mock the response to the bull, who withdrew his sculpture after six hours, because he was afraid his comment on the girl statue would get vandalised/removed.
Because the bull is a symbol of the financiers that bright the house down, despite being a āguerillaā, er, bronze cast statue and the response caught the gestalt of public mood better, despite being a commissioned artifact.
(Whew - end-of-rant! I finally articulated what annoyed me about the whole ādefiling mah bull!ā argument. 
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I know Iāve just posted a mega-rant, but whateverās left of Occupy could gain a ton of promotion by implementing this wholesale during the night. 
(Also, nicely said there.)
Wow, I had no idea the defiant girl was a bloody ad.
But yeah, the bull is a pissweak critique. Shouldāve been a revoltingly obese pig dressed like the Monopoly man.
Waiting for Godot has certainly brought joy into the lives of children everywhere.
The monopoly man would have been the perfect statue!
Yeah, I just assumed that was damning-with-faint-praise (āOh, the kiddies like itā)
(Or could even have been a āWah! It was only more popular because of the tastes of children.ā - which is either odd, or insulting.
Has anybody noticed the unwanted Terry Pratchett reference?
In this case Iām inclined to write:
Pretentious artist supports entitled artist. As far as Iām concerned they can both [complicated pictogram] themselves [urinating dog, urinating dog].
[spoiler]Cf. Interesting Times: āThe innkeeper said the City had demanded tax but he did not intend to payā¦[complicated pictogram] them all except one and he can [complicated pictogram] himselfā [urinating dog,urinating dog].
In Agatean script, [urinating dog] is an exclamation mark.[/spoiler]
Yeah, he seems disproportionally angry, as though this is the first time in history that one work of art has commented on another, and that itās somehow especially egregious that a symbol of aggressive finance would be picked on by an aggressive financial institution for its own gasp financial gain. I get the image of Di Modica quietly weeping like a princess, and gallant Gardega vowing to restore his honor in the most clever and tasteful way he knows how.
āHERE! 'YE SEE! I CAN COMMENT ON ART, TOO!!! YER ART SUX! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT?!?ā
And isnāt this a bit of a stretch?
I know when I think of a bull, I think of resilience; an animal who suffers many hardships, and yet somehow manages to persevere with only its lumbering size, powerful muscles, massive horns, and aggressive temperament.
A lot of guerillas seem indeed to be over-entitled rich kids who think the world isnāt nice enough to them (Guevara, bin Laden immediately spring to mind.)