Current Events > Florida Man told he can't remove big-ass ugly statue because it's ''art''.

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http://deadspin.com/miami-dade-county-to-derek-jeter-you-cannot-move-home-1797958928

Previous rumors of new Miami Marlins owner Derek Jeter’s desire to remove the stadium’s dinger sculpture will not be coming to fruition, as Miami-Dade County officials have spoken up to clarify that it is a work of public art that cannot be moved.

The sculpture is the property of the county: public art commissioned and “designed specifically for this project and location,” as head of Miami-Dade County’s cultural affairs arm Michael Spring told the Miami Herald today. (A helpful clarifying comment, as the sculpture is definitely indistinct enough to pass for any project or location.)

The sculpture cost $2.5 million and was required as part of the local Art in Public Places program, which mandates that county-constructed buildings include art. As former team owner Jeffrey Loria fleeced the city for hundreds of millions of public funding for the stadium, it is a county-constructed building which, therefore, needs some art. This is what they have, and it’s “permanently installed,” according to Spring. “It is not moveable.”

To any of Jeter’s self-serious ideas about respectability or propriety or what constitutes “art”—nah, Jeets. The statue stays.

Yes, this thing...





...is considered "art".
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That thing looks hilariously awesome
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That thing is the height of baby boomer kitschy, campy, classless aesthetic
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Why does Derek Jeter hate art?
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Good. Fuck Derek Jeter. I don't like that guy.
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That thing is an abomination.
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bump
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Lol that things awesome

It's like herpes you can't get rid of it
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