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Critic: “Charging Bull” Sculptor Is Right About “Fearless Girl” Sculpture – It Should Go

VISUAL Posted: April 13, 2017 1:31 pm

Before Fearless Girl came on the scene, the bull was an encouraging representation of a booming economy. Now, charging toward a tiny human, it’s a stand-in for the gendered forces that work against women’s success in the workplace. This isn’t the same kind of contextual shift that might result from a curator’s juxtaposition of two works; the girl is derivative. Arturo Di Modica meant his bull to stand alone—now, it’s as if Visbal and New York City have made a solo piece a diptych without his consent.”

VISUAL Published: 04.13.17

Read the story in Slate Published: 04.13.17

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