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New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
(www.theguardian.com)
Who's Charly Kirk ? /s
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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Put in a little piddle-catcher and charge a dollar a wee...
Just saying', you could be making the money back, you just ain't trying.
100k to make that? guess the grift is poetic for it
If no one wants to buy it, its not 100k.
That's an old-fashioned view. The magic of modern capitalism is that you can lose money every single day, providing something no one wants, and still get valued at hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Drill hole in neck and turn it into a water fountain.
Reminded me of this
Maybe he could make it into a fountain somehow
I'm cheap because I'm not willing to spend millions on mediocre art, got it.
Sorry but hahhahahahahhaaa. Someone should vandalize it in the neck area.
Well duh, it's missing Charlie - The Fountain's - best and most recent feature, ofc no one wants that.
Any Kirk grift this guy can do, Kirk’s widow probably already did, better.
Is it cursed? If it'll cause an eccentric collector to want to buy it then absolutely, yes.
Looks like he's.. angling for a job a SpaceX? https://www.sergiofurnari.com/take-us-to-mars/
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Michelangelo at least waited until he was commissioned to do something. I translated an old Latin piece of conversation scroll between Michelangelo and the pope, it said..."Show me the money, bitch!".
This guy has his head up his ass as he tries to compare himself to Michelangelo.
So he wanted to make big money, and failed to research his market? Tough luck.
Maybe add a drain to it, so people can use it as a urinal.
There should be a statue of Ron DeSantis killing old people with an axe
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Needs a sign. Empathy would have gone a long way.