It is permitted through June 22.

That sounds ominous...
posted by chavenet at 7:47 AM on June 19 [1 favorite]

The previous similar installations last year also had brief permits. The security guard is the bit I find more unsettling.
posted by EvaDestruction at 8:04 AM on June 19 [1 favorite]

Video is blocked here in the UK. What does it say?
posted by Paul Slade at 8:19 AM on June 19

Paul_Slade, the accompanying article describes it pretty well.
posted by doctornemo at 8:22 AM on June 19

Thank you.
posted by Paul Slade at 8:27 AM on June 19 [1 favorite]

Well, I'd like to see ol Donny trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
posted by Reyturner at 8:51 AM on June 19 [2 favorites]

That is wonderful art. I hope they auction it off and give most of the proceeds (the artist(s) should be compensated) to humanitarian causes.
posted by waving at 9:17 AM on June 19 [2 favorites]

Not a fan of the paper’s emphasis on tracking down the people who (very sensibly!) obfuscated their involvement in putting up some public art. Wish we had this level of detail for officer-involved shootings or corruption pieces. They’ll do the legwork when it serves those in power, but no effort for the common good. No Watergate-style investigations from this lot.
posted by domo at 9:47 AM on June 19 [17 favorites]

To be fair, a newspaper is obligated to try and track the people down, much like they are obligated to ask "the other side" what their thoughts, feelings, and opinions are on a subject even if you don't want them to or don't think they will give it.
posted by jenfullmoon at 10:09 AM on June 19 [2 favorites]

Speaking of which, domo, here's the Washington Post's article on the statue. Paywalled, alas.
posted by doctornemo at 10:10 AM on June 19

Why didn't the Washingtonian reporters identify the insignia worn by the "security guard" (i.e., identify the security company)? That seems very odd to me. I'm sort of picturing someone wearing a generic rent-a-cop uniform from a costume shop.
posted by scratch at 10:33 AM on June 19 [3 favorites]

This is great. This will definitely show him.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 10:45 AM on June 19

WaPo link, gift-ified.
posted by martin q blank at 11:13 AM on June 19 [2 favorites]

From that WaPo article (thanks, martin q blank!), on an anonymous source who "provided information about [previous works of protest art] that only someone who had installed the projects would know":

His identity remains a mystery. On Wednesday he replied to a Washington Post email asking if he was involved with the new statue. “I have heard about it but not me,” he wrote. He did not respond to additional questions or a request to meet in an Arlington parking garage.

Maybe the WaPo leadership re-watched All the President's Men and learned that investigative journalism is defined by the fact that it happens in a parking garage?

(That's obviously snark on my part, but, actually, the reactions they quote from visitors are beautiful and make the article worth reading all by themselves.)
posted by It is regrettable that at 12:15 PM on June 19 [2 favorites]

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