Time blogger Claire Suddath has some fun with angry old man Andy Rooney's scathing critique of public art from this Sunday's "60 Minutes." While decrying the multicolored livestock sculptures and bronze Mr. Potato Heads popping up on the streets of cities and towns across the country, Rooney takes a shot at an abstract sculpture in Downtown Memphis:
Rooney examines a modern art memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn. "I'm an admirer of everything Martin Luther King stood for," Rooney says, "but I don't think he would have stood for this." (Double zing!)
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