Saturday, July 2, 2016

The city of Jersey City has utterly insulted and failed the Monopoly artist

You've no doubt heard the invented faux outrage at certain parts of the Monopoly styled art piece on Newark Ave. The police, professional groups who exist to bring up faux outrage, and the city have all decided they needed a say in someone else's artwork. The reactions by the police was all too predictable, the professionally outraged need to ask why they immediately see shade where they should be learning about the artists intent, not that it even mattered in this case, or ever does with groups like this one. Their own publicity is something they always manage to see in a good light. Invent an outrage du jour and get your name out there.

The city was the worst of the snivelers, you have to go read this fine analysis of the outrage every Jersey City resident should heve at Mayor Fulop and his gutless and ham-handed administration. Tris McCall wrote this so Johnny didn't have to and did a better job of exposing just how pathetic the city's response was and how narrow the group complaining about the artist's self image in the 'In Jail' corner square as he said it is indeed a part of his life and he wanted to insert himself into the mural. The horror.

Go read, Dan Levin also pointed out on Twitter how the city insisted on an advertisement in the mural, despite the artist's wishes. The Fulop Administration has now managed to screw up even the mural program.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The poorest city in NJ (Abbott) spends $150,000 a year for murals, which just happens benefit Wall Street developers.

Johnny Action Space Punk said...

Amazing isn't it? This administration can't just do anything nice, there's ALWAYS an angle to get someone paid off