$100,000 Life-Size Charlie Kirk Statue Falls Short of Sculptor's Million-Dollar Hopes
The sculptor says his fundraising campaign has reached only $7,660 after spending more than $100,000 on the memorial.
- New York artist Sergio Furnari plans to unveil his statue of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Times Square on September 10, though his fundraising campaign has netted only $7,660 against an initial $150,000 goal.
- Furnari invested roughly $100,000 in materials for the project, describing the sculpture as an effort to "glorify and to exercise the First Amendment, this freedom of speech" and featuring Kirk clutching a microphone on a shirt emblazoned with the word "Freedom."
- "Things financially are a total, absolute nightmare," Furnari lamented, noting he recently broke his foot in his studio while working on the project and had hoped the campaign would eventually raise millions.
- Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012 before he was killed in Orem, Utah, on September 10, 2025, and was frequently criticized for remarks opponents described as bigoted, including comments about Black pilots.
- Despite his personal disagreement with Kirk's views on Palestine, Furnari maintains the statue is "blessed," while social media responses have been uniformly hostile ahead of the planned New York City debut.
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$100,000 Life-Size Charlie Kirk Statue Falls Short of Sculptor's Million-Dollar Hopes
A broken foot. A cursed feeling. Just a fraction of the money he'd hoped for. New York sculptor Sergio Furnari spent $100,000 (£74,000) building a life-size statue of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, convinced it would become a multi-million-pound project. Instead, it has left him wondering whether the whole project is jinxed. Is the Statue Cursed? Furnari's Doubts Grow as Support Stalls Furnari, an Italian-born artist based in New York…
Grotesque Charlie Kirk Statue To Perhaps Spend Years Getting Sh*t On By Times Square Pigeons
Screenshot from Newsmax interview with artist Sergio FurnariWhat could you do with $100,000? Pay down a chunk of your mortgage? Pay off some student loans? Invest it for retirement? That’s what we would do. Or maybe we would do some home remodeling. Or buy $100,000 worth of guns for society’s inevitable collapse into armed and warring fiefdoms. Or go out for approximately 1,000 sushi dinners. Or buy half of a Cybertruck. Or sign up hundreds of p…
Italian sculptor in New York invested $100,000 in the real-sized work of the murdered conservative activist convinced that the work could make him millions of dollars.
Sculptor Has Sadz: No One Will Buy My Kirk Statue
The Guardian reports: A New York sculptor has been left furious after spending $100,000 of his own money to build a lifesize statue of Charlie Kirk, only to find that no one wants to buy it. Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend …
'Furious' sculptor whines that he spent all his money on Charlie Kirk statue no-one wants
A New York sculptor who claims he spent over $100k to create a slightly larger-than-life-size statue of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is both surprised and "furious" that no one has stepped forward to meet his asking price of $150,000 — down from the millions he'd expected.Sergio Furnari, an Italian-born artist, constructed the elaborate memorial to the far-right activist who was killed at a Utah college last September, the Guardian reporte…
A New Statue Of Charlie Kirk Is Coming To Times Square—And Everyone's Thinking The Same Thing
People are already predicting what might happen in response to news that a statue of the late far-right activist Charlie Kirk is set to debut in Times Square in September.Kirk was assassinated in September while speaking at a university in Utah; the suspect was caught after a two-day manhunt and has since been charged.Italian sculptor Sergio Furnari is seeking public support for a statue honoring Kirk, which he plans to unveil on September 10, m…
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