Monday, January 3, 2011
Art / News Brooklyn Public Sculptures to Become Superheroic TV Ads on Wednesday
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:39 AM
In its monthly newsletter, CB6 justifies the campaign's commercialization of public space and public art thusly: “In anticipation of the show’s focus on heroism, this is a first-of-its-kind campaign to highlight historic statues from around the city.”
The show, incidentally, is about a cop who's framed for a crime that he didn't commit, gets some training from a circus ringleader, and continues to fight crime by donning the trademark disguise of his son's favorite comic book superhero. Exactly at what point in this transformation from honest cop to clandestine, cloaked vigilante The Cape takes a moment to highlight Brooklyn's historical sculptures is unclear. Meanwhile, NBC hasn't revealed which other Brooklyn sculptures will get caped, or for how long, but in any case its analogizing of historical heroism and a network television show about a superhero is super-offensive.
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