Did you see the new statue placed in the 900blk of Hamilton St?
"The Abduction of Psyche” was placed outside the Archer Music Hall in downtown Allentown.
The crooked Niz Brothers Pat Browne and J.B Reilly were there to present this statue.
I personally think the statue would look good in a fountain somewhere in Greece. The 900blk of Hamilton St. tho?
Wait until Gerlach and Siegel march with the defund the police crowd. That statue will be destroyed.
Or some kid will come by and spray paint it.
Of course Tuerk and his shadow Mota were there as well.
Tuerk proclaimed there is art everywhere in the city, around every corner. Yes Matt you are correct if you consider trash, graffiti, and homeless people art.
"Thats been our core mission from the beginning, not just to build buildings but to create places that people want to be in. Public art is a really critical part of creating these kinds of places." J.B. Reilly
J.B. I believe your core mission was to become rich and not pay taxes on the buildings you built. Thats how you will be remembered. Not for any art.
The fact is Hamilton St. is a ghost town after 5pm. There is no reason besides the PPL center to head there. Statues, bike lanes and whatever else anyone tries to implement or build will never get people to come there. Keep pumping money into your boat. You will never get it to float.
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Matt’s a total goofball.
I idea may be good. But the location is dumb. I drove by it this morning and it doesnt fit in. Maybe if the other side of the block was nice. That area isnt artsy at all.
Imagine what J.B. really thinks about the Illustrated Mayor?
Woo boy!!!
Public art should complement its setting.
This piece doesn’t work in that space.
These people have no clue.
ABE what in the blue hell is it itZ still drinking the bubbling boiling blue juice of progressivenesseZ when in all actuality itZ regressiveness!)$? I loved your STATEment as too garbage homelessness and all the urban decay you spoke so eloquently about in your article as itZ the nue Kensington downtown epicentral!)$?
The execution of utterly ridiculous.
Matt, of course, is artless. Money has not expanded J.B.’s taste.
Hardly surprising.
I wonder if the Pawlowski daughter was brought in for consultation. She has an expertise for such things, ya’ know.
J.B. must have won that piece in a raffle. It couldn’t be more inappropriate for the site.
I beg your pardon. Matt comes from a carefully crafted Punk Rock aesthetic developed on the hard scrabble mean streets of Boulder Colo.
He’s the authentic deal. Slightly dangerous, edgy, as he lovely wife has said.
His body is his canvas.
Matt’s entire tenure as mayor has been devoted to Performance Art.
Cut him a break. Sculpture has never been his thing.
I don’t know what Reilly’s excuse is.
This is how it this grift USUALLY works:
Step 1: A local fat cat buys the sculpture from a crony of his, generating plenty of goodwill for himself from the sculptor.
Step 2: Said fat cat donates sculpture to the city, and takes a huge tax deduction for whatever he paid for it.
The result:
The tax deduction has the effect of all of us paying for a sculpture that we didn’t want and that was chosen for us by a multimillionaire who has already received more government money than any of us could dream of.
We (the taxpayers) also get to pay for maintaining it.
The politicians participating in this scam are later rewarded with political contributions from the fat cat’s and/or access to the fat cat’s network of other fat cats.
The FBI shouldn’t have stopped with Pawlowski.
Allentown: A Pa. Version of Detroit/ Friday, February 05, 2016 Lehigh Valley Ramblings
Good article by Bernie O'Hare reviewing a 5 year history of the NIZ along with 63 related comments.
Mayor Bicycle was cosy with US Federal Prisoner Ed Pawlowski. He was in a front row seat for that disastrous felonious rotten administration. He was essentially a part of the Pawlowski regime.
Mayor Matt, the Queen City’s First Latino Mayor, from the barrios of Bolder Colorado, never said a single word about that thuggish corrupt
government that will tarnish Allentown for generations to come.
Not one word.
Mayor Matt is a fraud, an incompetent and a farce.
When he closes his eyes at night he knows all this.
On deck…Mayor Dr. Moto.
If you haven’t left this sinking municipal ship get out as soon as you possibly can.
I l9ved the one that year with jennings behind allentowns CEDC desk backing the mayor palumpashitsky down to paying off non-English speaking people to testify how he had helped them til itZ perp walk of fame!)$?
The Judge saw right through Jennings hustle.
Apparently over the weekend the statue has already been damaged. The pointed finger has been broken off.
Social media posts are showing that the statue has already been vandalized.
Wow, that’s surprising.
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ABE, not only is this a insurance fraud situation because the finger first being on the wall of the gloryhole room at Bradbury's. Now it is up Turkecy's ass as he is riding his bike and his constituents can't read English or Spanglish.
Many must learn to code properly as most are only butt useless yes people!)$?
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