“Bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife,” Zuckerberg announced to his 14.5 million followers.
+ wife guy + 
The sculpture is by Daniel Arsham, a New York-based sculptor who makes everything from giant Pokemon cards to NFTs of Porsches. His work has been featured at some of the most acclaimed museums and galleries in the world. (Last month, he was also accused of violating federal law for firing an employee who supported a workers union, according to a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board. But that’s another story.)
If he had just kept this private and done it as a silly act of devotion to his wife, instead for weird crypto-fascist Rome-worshipping dweeb reasons, this would have been the first semi-cool thing he’s ever done.
Yeah my immediate reaction was "holy shit, a normal use of lots of money"
The sculpture is by Daniel Arsham, a New York-based sculptor who makes everything from giant Pokemon cards to NFTs of Porsches. His work has been featured at some of the most acclaimed museums and galleries in the world. (Last month, he was also accused of violating federal law for firing an employee who supported a workers union, according to a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board. But that’s another story.)
Ah yes, another “artist” who hires impoverished artists to do all of the actual work, paying them a pittance if at all while taking all of the credit and profits. A tale as old as time, unfortunately
Last month, he was also accused of violating federal law for firing an employee who supported a workers union, according to a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board. But that’s another story.
Write a new article then.
Write a new article then.
When billionaires own most of the press, the cooling effect intensifies when it involves anything vaguely in the orbit of their hubris-laden masturbatory actions.
Rome-weeaboos are fucking cringe and always have been. 40k brain: not even once.
Off-topic but I’m rewatching HBO’s Rome with my partner right now. One thing that strikes me about it is that they did not glorify this society whatsoever. They show even the most sympathetic characters to be totally habituated to slavery, rape, domestic abuse and a brutal caste system while still framing these acts as unambiguously evil. It would have been easy to have an audience insert who is the one moral person in an immoral time, like Vikings did with the English monk, but they took the tougher and more honest route.
Lucius Vorenus was a hero... of Roman ideals, which were fucked up from the start.
Personally, the Hellenistic style is my favorite, and I think the statue is beautiful. It shows a woman as powerful and strong, yet delicate, as she gently alights on the ground.
The Hellenistic style is beautiful because their ability to depict fabric draped over the human body was second to none, literally fucking incredible, I can not describe how incredible it is to get a sense of how you can make the feeling of ultra thin see-through fabrics in a STATUE.
This monstrosity on the other hand makes her look like she's wearing a curtain rather than a lightweight piece of fabric. It's terrible to compare it to the Hellenistic style. It's so bad it looks like water instead of fabric.
The only reason I can come up with for doing it this way is prudishness. He or the artist was afraid of the nudity that the ultra-thin fabrics style depict. She looks thoroughly covered up compared to the Hellenistic greats. Even the ones that were largely covering up the woman depicted were less prudish than this, look at how the fabric wraps her leg:
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Seriously I go to see these statues to stare at the fabrics. Complete mastery to pull it off in marble.
Zucc's commission doesn't come close
perfectly captured her cold, dead-eyed stare and general aura of contempt
perfectly captured her cold, dead-eyed stare and general aura of contempt
Billionaires have their own special takes on romance.
"Hey alive human girl"
She still completed medical school despite marrying Smaug the dragon.
The virgin sculpture commissioner vs the chad Gothic cathedral commissioner
Probably won't be long before some upcoming bazinga billionaire wants a full-blown recreation of a 40k Spehs Mehreen fortification to hold questionable private parties in.
Daniel Arsham
Some literal fucking who? What, has Hirst finally fallen out of style with the über wealthy?
This is of course gaudy and megalomaniacal rich asshole silliness, but somehow it is less grating than the usual false pretenses of "minimalism" that are otherwise in vogue for the bourgeoisie.
Is it too much to ask for me to prefer the monsters destroying the planet to peacock nice and loud so they can be more obvious to the people? May be useful later for reference purposes.
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