by Ned Oliver
Richmond sculptor Paul DiPasquale is not impressed by your hastily-thrown together list, Mental Floss. The national magazine included DiPasquale’s statue of tennis great and city native Arthur Ashe in an article titled “10 Unintentionally Horrifying Statues of Famous People.”
DiPasquale’s Ashe was number three for showing him “holding books and a tennis racket high above the outstretched arms of a gaggle of children, frozen forever in a state of seemingly mocking them for their lack of height.”
The statue went up back in 1996, and, at this point, dedicating any amount of time or effort to criticizing it comes across as passé.…[ Read more ]