, was unveiled this week -- depicting a famous hug they gave each other ... but not everyone sees that.
The art piece is called"The Embrace," and it was shown off in public for the first time Friday ... with a large crowd on hand in the Freedom Plaza of the Boston Common to help ring in the new addition to the space. Some King family members were also there for the honor.is the man behind the monument -- and he says he designed"The Embrace" after a 1964 photo of MLK wrapping Coretta up after hearing he'd won the Nobel Peace Prize that year.
While the sculpture is being praised by many, it's being questioned by others -- especially on Twitter, where some can't understand why the creator didn't include their heads. BREAKING: The bronze sculpture called “The Embrace” honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has just been unveiled on the Boston Common
Why?
It’s terrible. Not right at all.that thing needs to be gone ASAP. This thing is so dishonorable. Total disrespect. PERIOD. PLEASE GET RID OF THIS. COME ON YOU ALL SHOULD NIT BE PLEASE. UTTERLY AWEFUL..
This looks so disgusting
It cost $10.5 million! Lol
Weak lol
Its garbage! Over-priced garbage at that!
Those who don’t appreciate art think it’s odd
Whoever designed this should be embarrassed.. come on.. you know what this looks like
Still odd but makes a little more sense to me at this angle
Art is subjective. Art brings out emotions. Art is beautiful.
Whaaaat ? That awful
I guess that's what they call abstract art 🤦
Wait, I just noticed it has a third hand too 🤔
No disrespect, but it kinda looks like a head and a butt. Bring a whole new meaning to...... Get your head out of your ass 🤷
The worst
This is ridiculous! The view is totally different 🙄
This is just hideous..MLK and his lovely wife deserved so much better than this! Can't decide if it's hands holding a turd or a penis. THIS NOT OKAY! If this were JFK & JackieO we'd all be complaining! Im def not gonna act like this piece of poo or dong is suitable for the Kings
Can we blame JayZ 😆
This is a shitty representation lol mannnn the artist and city should be ashamed of themselves 😂 you really can’t make this shit up lmao
Looks like a penis
It's utter trash!
“The Embrace” literally looks like s__t. Almost as though it’s intended to demoralize rather than inspire the viewer.
It is awful and looks sexual from multiple views. It is shameful that THIS is what they chose to represent MLK.
Don’t get me wrong, there is a message here somewhere… but Jesus Christ, basing it off an image of Dr. MLK & his wife & removing their faces & body from it makes it look like a distorted Alien Predator throwaway & the only people behind it isn’t even black.
It’s awful
😳🤣🤯
Yeah… it’s a little bizarre…
It's horrible.. The sentiment was beautiful, but it fell significantly short.. It looks wildly inappropriate bc it simply doesn't look how it was intended to, but it looks like a few other things.. It's a fail for me.
Weird….
It’s a Rorschach test for racists
Uh who designed this?
That’s weird af. Where’s their head ?
am i nuts or is it someone on their back spreading their ass cheeks playing with their bum! 🙄
It almost looks like Dahmer pose.
I see ass cheeks ~ anyone else?
Horrible.. Who did this and why?!?
Looks more like someone catching a football.
Oof, I see it. Why oh why did they have to make this piece so ambiguously tawdry? Why would they reduce his legend to this horribly gauche “embrace”. His memory deserved much much better than this.
Your tweet, so far, has the most information that can be found anywhere on the internet. I just commented on another tweet that the hands looked like it was cradling a baby. Now that I read your comment about two people hugging without their heads, I’ll look at it differently.
It looks like someone hugging an olive
What am I looking at
Yeah it looks like an dude trying to blow himself
DezBryant caught it. They now memorializing it in Bronze. 👍
If the artist was going to do a literal interpretation, he/she needed to include their heads. The disembodied arms holding a blob just looks….strange.
How did this monstrosity got approved? And in such a huge size too…
Heck, it looks strange at this angle, I don’t even know what to make of it.
I thought we were taking down all the statutes… I am confused.
Sad how they do us cause wtf is this 🤦🏾♂️
From the back angle…looks like a guy trying to give himself felatio! 😳
That's how I look going down on my lady
Shoving the head up the ass
i don't like it.🥺
I hope public funds weren’t spent on that shit
That is not to honor MLK and Coretta, it's to dishonor them. It's disgusting and neither MLK nor Coretta would be happy about it. Guaranteed.
It's a pornographic sculpture...
Horrible 🤯
'Strange' is an understatement and you know it.
It’s time to have it removed. It’s offensive.