Works of art that are displayed for the general public to enjoy are often a contentious topic. On the one hand, you’re trying to liven up and beautify your local community’s spaces. On the other hand, with so many different tastes, wants, and needs, the artist’s vision—no matter how well-intentioned—can end up backfiring. Embarrassingly so!
#42 Australia
this monstrosity of a statue they spent an unnecessary amount of money on.
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#44 Australia
$172,000 hot air balloon to celebrate my city’s centenary. I love it.
A loathsome, offensive brute… yet I can’t look away.
A loathsome, offensive brute… yet I can’t look away.
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#45 United States Of America
It’s no longer there, and was beloved by some, but this spindle of cars in a Berwyn, Illinois parking lot was controversial.
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#47 United States Of America
The Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, WV. It’s a statue of the famous local cryptid but it looks nothing like the eye witness reports
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#48 Duisburg, Germany
This Thing is called Pleitegeier (broke vulture) costed million of Euros in a broke City (Duisburg, Germany)
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#49 Taipei
This thing was in Taipei Main Station MRT entrance for like 11 years
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#51 United States Of America
Honorable mention to the 9/11 memorial at the New Bern Firemen's Museum in North Carolina.
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#52 Finland
Let me present you with the mighty posankka (pig-duck) in my city!
The locals (me included) love it though and it has been named as the official animal of the city and has spawned a great amount of merch, including but not limited to rubber bath duck replicas.
The locals (me included) love it though and it has been named as the official animal of the city and has spawned a great amount of merch, including but not limited to rubber bath duck replicas.
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#53 Singapore
Singapore has a whole park of nightmare fuel statues built by the Haw Par family of Tiger Balm fame. It is meant to teach children about the animals of the world, Chinese fairytales, Chinese history, and Confucian and Buddhist values but never having any fond childhood memories on the precipice between wonder and trauma, I can squarely say it is a repository for the Singapore's worst statues. It's hard to decide between hundreds if not thousands of statues there but I think the demon panda cubs speak for themselves. These things are placed in a cave near the exit and stare right into your soul. They are more scary in my opinion than even the depiction of hell they have. These pandas have seen things and done things no adult panda has or frankly would ever do.
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#54 India
Used to stand in front of a football stadium. THANKFULLY taken down now!
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#55 South Korea
The artwork made from 30000 pairs of used shoes installed at Seoul Station. It was installed for about a week in 2017. I did not see it in person, but according to reviews, the smell was quite strong. For your information, it cost 100 million won to install this, and someone else will convert that amount into dollars and let you know.
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#58 Romania
Timisoara-Romania, these are right next to "The Children's Park" amongst some other weird ones. As a kid I always thought the one on the left is phallic and my mom was as confused as me regarding them, I hated going to that area.
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#60 France
Woinic the biggest and ugliest wild boar on earth
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