Rock bottom: Why must deliberately ugly sculpture invade all our public spaces?

Rock bottom: Why must deliberately ugly sculpture invade all our public spaces?

We have a crisis of trashy public “art,” and sculpture is one of the main offenders. More on this below; I have to buffer your reading experience with a reminder of actual beauty before we dive to the bottom of the aesthetic dumpster.When I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave me a small hardback book of Greek mythology. I can’t remember the title. It was written in the 1940s and probably used as a textbook or primer for college-level courses.Th…