Nine Australian Public Artworks Way More Heinous Than Sydney’s New Tapeworm Cloud Thing

Public art in Australia is friggin' weird.

by Alex McKinnon 29 July 2014

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Nine Australian Public Artworks Way More Heinous Than Sydney’s New Tapeworm Cloud Thing

In her latest cunning scheme to turn the nation’s largest city into a socialist latte-lefty chemtrails hellhole, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has unveiled plans for a strange, frightening public sculpture she’s planning to devilishly foist upon the honest public.

The sculpture, ‘Cloud Arch’ by award-winning Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, will be a fifty-metre-plus high band of swirly white metal that will sit outside Sydney Town Hall on a newly-pedestrianised George Street. Judging by the initial reaction, people do not like it.

I guess my main concern with that statue is that it looks a lot like a spooky spooky ghost. Public art should not be that spine-chilling.

— Ben Jenkins (@bencjenkins) July 29, 2014

MY NEW PUBLIC ART PIECE IS TEN BILLION GIANT BUGS CRAWLING ALL OVER SYDNEY DEVOURING EVERYONE THEY SEE

— レトロヴァーティゴ (@Retrovertigo) July 29, 2014

I am a very busy lady just walkin thru the city pic.twitter.com/yUue4jnBHY

— mat whitehead (@matwhi) July 29, 2014

Twitter needs to calm down, though; as public art in Australia goes, this thing’s a regular Mona Lisa compared to some of the livid monstrosities we’ve foisted on ourselves over the years.

(Words by Alex McKinnon.)