The outsourcing of the Martin Luther King Memorial to China is being investigated by the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior. You can tell the thing was dreamed up by a current member of the Communist Party in China. Its massive scale and design are more fitting for a statue of Mao than MLK.

Thomas Luebke, the secretary of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, had this mini-review:

“The Commission members found that the colossal scale and Social Realist style of the proposed statue recalls a genre of political sculpture that has recently been pulled down in other countries.”


Final question: Why can’t sculptors create a statue of Martin Luther King that does more than vaguely resemble the great man?