New Sculpture Erected Outside City Vista Busboys & Poets
10 November 2009 3:00 PM | By Prince Of Petworth in Neighborhoods - Mt. Vernon Square, Real Estate - Mt. Vernon Square, Sculpture, art
Thanks to a reader for sending:
“Have you seen the new “art” outside the city vista busboys (5th and K Street, NW). Not a fan of the form, but I am going to drunk climb all over that.”
It certainly is interesting. I’ll have to go back and take some daytime photos. But from the reader’s photo, what do you guys think – thumbs up or down?
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10 November 2009 3:23 PM | HIPS Said:
Tonight at BUSBOYS and POETS on 5th and Kst.
“Hookers, Ho’s, CallGirls, and Rent Boys” Book Signing
Writer and former sex worker David Henry Sterry will be at the 5th and
K Busboys and Poets tonight to share his and his wife’s experience of
running a weekly writers’ workshop for sex workers. Sterry, author of
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on
Life, Love, Money, and Sex, will be joined by other contributors to
the anthology, including young women participating in the first ever
National Summit of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth.
A Portion of each book sold at tonight’s event will be donated to HIPS
6:30 PM at Busboys and Poets at 5th&K
http://www.HIPS.org
10 November 2009 3:36 PM | thumbs down Said:
It is hideous – made even more so by the atrociously loud yellow paint!
10 November 2009 3:38 PM | New2CH Said:
Up
10 November 2009 3:50 PM | FourthandEye Said:
5th & K is my hood. I don’t think the art is great. I don’t flat out dislike it but I think it had potential to be better with a different paint job. Not a fan of this solid yellow. Doesn’t complement the building and the surroundings well. The yellow twisted metal evokes images of Caterpillar construction equipment in my head…
10 November 2009 3:52 PM | Johnna Knows Good Food Said:
Don’t know how I feel about this sculpture yet…I saw it yesterday and was trying to figure out its purpose…
10 November 2009 3:54 PM | Anonymous Said:
lame
10 November 2009 3:56 PM | Emmaleigh504 Said:
Drunk climbing all over that seems like an accident waiting to happen.
10 November 2009 3:56 PM | anon Said:
thumbs up! that looks like some serious drunk fun.
10 November 2009 3:59 PM | Adam Said:
Let the art wars begin anew…
10 November 2009 4:03 PM | K St. Said:
Turrible
10 November 2009 4:04 PM | carn Said:
Oh wow no ones ever welded ca-razy shapes out of flat steel plates and painted it all one color before!!!
10 November 2009 4:11 PM | ashley Said:
it’s awful and huge and quite an obstruction? when they were putting it in, it looked like it was attached to some sort of hook up, i thought at first it was a fountain..is this a permanent fixture?
10 November 2009 4:18 PM | Sully Said:
I saw them working on it this morning. It is one of those sculptures you take a look at and ask yourself “Is it done?” I think they put it there to block the homeless and hookers from sitting on the benches outside Busboys or at least block the view from outside eaters.
10 November 2009 4:19 PM | normantown Said:
Sickening that the whiners here have the gall to complain about this art. City Vista is opposite a black strip bar and run-down liquor store. In other words, anything going up is a huge improvement to the area.
10 November 2009 4:26 PM | washingtonydc Said:
I agree that the yellow doesn’t quite do it for me, but I do like the idea of public art in the neighborhood. And the point of public art isn’t to please everyone, but instead to provide diversity and something interesting. I think it at least fits the latter point. And I do like how it has a bench built into it.
10 November 2009 4:52 PM | victoria Said:
It’s one photo, from one angle, with harsh lights and scaffolding still up – no in situ perspective at all – how about we give it a few more looks? Personally, I always liked the jungle gym way more than the sandbox.
10 November 2009 5:10 PM | Petworth Newbie Said:
Funny I only just noticed Louis’ Rogue (the strip bar opposite) for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I drive by there all the time. (The only time I’ve every been in one, Camelot, was for a wake for a former frequent customer. Very enlightening if you are shopping for a bikini wax but haven’t figured out what style you want yet…)
10 November 2009 5:33 PM | victoria Said:
Ummm – how many “styles” are there exactly? I mean, it’s not exactly like mowing patterns into a baseball field. . .
10 November 2009 5:37 PM | Pennywise Said:
I’ve seen the racing stripe, the lightning bolt, and the “dot”.
10 November 2009 5:38 PM | Bitter Elitist Said:
They need to go ahead and complete the slide and add monkey bars…a tire swing. Yes, this is a drunk accident waiting to happen!
10 November 2009 8:11 PM | victoria Said:
Yes! – swings would be excellent! A thousand swings could solve everything (I am not being sarcastic – tragic that you would think so – motion and play is often the solution.)
And drunk accidents are fine if you die before reproducing.
11 November 2009 12:09 AM | sean Said:
that brings up a great idea. m.e. swings coffee would be an excellent addition to this area.
11 November 2009 12:16 AM | AngryParakeet Said:
well said, victoria
11 November 2009 9:58 AM | spirit equality Said:
I hereby declare this sculpture the site of the first ever DC Drunk Olympics! Whoever can climb to the top and yell “Adrienne!!!” the loudest wins!
11 November 2009 10:00 AM | ontarioroader Said:
In all seriousness – do we know for a fact this is intended as “art” and not actually a jungle-gym of some sort?
11 November 2009 12:00 PM | Megan Said:
Horrible. Just like Busboys.
11 November 2009 3:36 PM | Anonymous Said:
Here’s hoping that the City didn’t pay for this….
11 November 2009 5:35 PM | Anonymous Said:
Might be better as a trellis, in a garden.
18 November 2009 11:23 PM | Dre Said:
i’ve seen better looking stuff floating in the anacostia