Will the public embrace "The Embrace"? 

The designers totally disregarding criticism because it came from the internet. Well gentlemen, the truth hurts. If I were local I'd swing by the office and tell you that it's a shame in person. I get the idea of the monument, but we could've honored Dr. King a little more than this.

Nothings going to change, I don’t like it. The human face is _THE_ touchstone for a sculpture honoring someone. Without it the sculpture seems incomplete in some essential way.

I think the problem is that it looks fantastic from the angle or spot that you’re supposed to be viewing it from (like the photo)… but if you’re viewing it from the other 270 degrees of angle it just looks bizarre

Pornographic statue does not honor the great Martin Luther King.

It's incomplete without Dr. and Mrs. MLK's faces...this could be anyone's arms. 😢

It doesn’t even looks they are embracing, looks confusing. The artist miss the assignment

I think it’s not very attractive to the eye, but what it stands for is beautiful…

I'm white, I honestly believe the three best people to ever life were JFK, MLK and RFK. Amazing they all lived and died within years of each other....

There is no reality where the artist did not see the phallus in the mock-ups. Letting it go to bronze was unequivocally intentional. But that is okay. It says something that makes people think. It doesn’t have to be serious or reverent. That is art. But CBS - really, why even talk about it if you are afraid to speak plainly? How do you expect blind persons to interpret the story? It is 2023 - we can say anatomical terms without giggling.

I don't like it as a larger than life sculpture because it is difficult to see, therefore leading to being misinterpreted. The DC monument looks unfinished. But people also hate the FDR monument. I hate the puffy hearts around San Francisco. Art isn't for everyone. But if you have to explain it at length, then the art is missing the intent.

If it had included the back of two heads ducked down into the shoulders/arms, then maybe it would look more normal. Thinking the sculpture is weird is not a racist thing. People react to modern art, and that isn't a matter of race.

It's just odd, man. Truth.

Chicago 1967, people including the mayor of Chicago didn't like the Picasso statue in Daley Plaza. Now it's a big tourist attraction and well loved by residents and tourist alike!

What I believe to be important is that this sculpture can cause you to feel different things from different angles. I prefer the angle where their arms look like a heart. It is definitely going to continue to spark conversation and criticism, as all good art does.

I feel that he should have just a simple statue of the actual couple hugging. Not many people know about Mrs. Coretta and we have seen many statues of Dr. King. If the private donors gave money for art to represent the couple then they should have represented the couple and not the general public embracing. plus no one is really embracing strangers nowadays due to Covid

In the past, up to today, people have had certain doubts or confusions about certain art that they see, or that is trending in the world, currently. While it is normal for people to share their own opinions about what they see and say, about art or anything/anyone in general, it is very vital that they remain cautious about how they share them, so it doesn’t cause a stir or cause any trouble among other people or groups. This particular MLK/CSK statue might have been confusing or difficult to understand at first, but it is there to show one purpose- to “Embrace” the power of love, and the courage to come together, as brothers and sisters, no matter the color of their skin, just like what his dream was, nearly 60 years ago.

Boston is a very visually classical conservative city. I find it funny/ interesting that this sculpture is causing so much dialog.

My dad calls that a choking the chicken grip.

I like it.

What good are statues? History will just topple them in the future. Use the space for homeless people. How many homeless families could safely live in the sculpture? Dr. King would like that better than a DisneyLand looking Oscar Meyer Wiener

I understand what they were going for. I simply don't like the sculpture. I'm not offended by it but I would have preferred a straight forward sculpture with the likeness of the Kings as opposed to this.

Why are people so very hung up on what it looks like?

What an insult to these 2 great people .why always sexualized pure and beautiful things

I think it’s incredible. Public, intimate husband and wife representation is rare and non-existent for black love. It’s perfectly executed in my opinion.

It's beautiful in so many ways! To those that don't like the angle they are seeing it from, step around and feel it's meaning❣

Of is it MLK with one of his mistresses?

It looks like something else. Not good.

I agree 👍 with Leslie Jones ...... check it out....

Not...is all iam gonna say.

I love the sculpture. I believe it invokes the overwhelming feeling of accomplishment under extraordinary pressure and fear. Hands tell a lot about a person, but entwining hands and arms is just human.

it’s great we have a statue for MLK in boston common, but it looks ridiculous on the back side

This is hideous

I just can’t get past the decision to present the Kings without a face 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ I really want to love this sculpture so bad but…imma just stop there

Why couldn’t they just do the full people! How did they not walk around the sculpture and not see what it looked like?

people can have their own opinion about the design , but there is nothing to remind us about dr. King or his legacy, the monument failed in that aspect....

Online, many Bostonians are saying they NEVER voted on this or heard of it. Would've been interesting if they fully detailed the selection process. Anywho, it's still hideous even with the meaning behind it. He leaned into his artistic strengths...it wasn't worth 10mil, but at least it will recoup money on tourism like they probably always intended.

Missing heads an torso redo!

It's nice. Looks like it's missing torsos and heads though.

The sculpture is ugly!

It looks ugly

Headless 🤔

The statue is SO bad. Time will not change that!

Have some respect for the Kings This is disrespectful, no matter what you think it looks like

When’s the guy supposed to comeback and finish this statue?

It looks like a pile of dog feces from some angels. And then as you walk around it, it looks like something that is ok in private but should never be done in public. You can say I am not sophisticated enough to appreciate The Embrace, but art is for everyone and if it looks like dog doo then it looks like dog doo. Maybe it will grow on us. Doo-doo is a great fertilizer.

I can’t tell what it is…

What were you thinking? Nothing about that thing represents MLK; it's almost offensive...

Millions of people embrace. That's not special. What makes it unique and moving was that it was MLK and his wife. Yet that is not shown. A conceptual miss.

I'm sorry, but I honestly don't like it. It's too abstract and too pretentious. Frankly, seeing these guys 'pooh-poohing' criticisms reminds me of some art critic with his nose in the air, scoffing at all the 'Philistines' who can't perceive the 'deeper meaning' of a paint splatter on a canvas. Perhaps I'm just unrefined. Or perhaps I have some sense.

I think it's better as a smaller sculpture.

i love the kings. i just the embrace looks like other body parts the way that it's done. it's form looks weird. just like what the critics are saying. kinda pornographic.

_DO-OVER_

The sculptor clearly more interested in expressing his abstracted artistic "vision" than inspired by the Kings.

Look at the dialogue it opened up.....YAY!

So bad …….

I'm not sure how I feel about it. From one angle, it's beautiful. From every other angle it's definitely unusual. But I'm only seeing it through a camera lens.

Dr. King, like this statue, was imperfect.

I love the movement of the EMBRACE but still it looks like the heads have been chopped off..!!yikes!

If it’s suppose to be an abstract, it’s fine. If not it’s money wasted . You don’t know it’s dr and Mrs King arms.

I disagree, people loved the bean from the beginning.

Irrelevant sculpture, it could be better with head and face.

i still don't like the bean, i'm from chicago.

If the family thinks it’s not good, why is it still up?

I love this warm, loving artwork.

It's the thought that counts...bless their hearts.

Anything to not talk about #reperations

It looks great from my house !

This is unacceptable!

This is a disgrace to their family

Mean people, its easy to critise

How the woke can spin!

REALITY SUCKS ❤❤❤❤

I guess it depends on from what angle you view it. At some angles it is ver beautiful. At other angles it’s very odd and not a successful sculpture in my opinion.

Disappointed in the lack of cultural diversity in the responses presented.

Yeeeeah no.

I would NOT call that thing " SCULPTURE " !

The reality is the movement has died in vain. The expectation IS still live but only in words. The UNITY is absent and the struggle to "EMBRACE" freedom is still long over due.

Everybody wants this statue to be completed since it looked unfinished without the head and torso but honestly, this look great. Why? Cause it's different. It's unique. It's not like any other statues that critics wanted it to be. In all fairness, there are other statues all over the world that even I don't know what they represent. - Like the St. Louis Arch: what the heck is that built for and what does it mean? - The Silver Bean in Chicago: what kind of bean? Jellybean? - and oh, here's another one, Mount Rushmore National Memorial: we know the four presidents but...why does it look unfinished? So there you go, as the comedian says, we might get to like it someday. Maybe not now but who knows..

Criticism of anything progressive...art, ideas, or legislation is dismissed as blasphemous narrow mindedness in current culture. Opinions that you disagree with, can still be simple free speech. Your opinion of that sculpture and your belief in the work and impact of the King Family can be mutually exclusive.

Time will tell.

2:10 Good one LMAO

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Unfortunately, like most confederate statues, this one will be removed by public demand, albeit for different reasons, and be moved inside to adorn the interior of a civil rights or history-related museum in Boston. I think the sculptor sees the error of his decision now. I would like for him to have a chance to design another sculpture, but I know that procuring the same level of funding would be difficult. This is certainly the trial and tribulation of a young sculptor's journey. It no doubt has been a huge education for him. I can definitely see him taking on the personal goal of creating a replacement statue that will be perceived as inspirational. Hopefully, one that would ultimately grace that same location for many generations.

Today, loving black people as part of who we are is a bold move.

Why should it take generations for people to see the loving embrace. We know yal got paid.

I'm not that fond of it. Looks... off. Perhaps it will grow on people.

They may not embrace it but they will go balls deep... Leslie Jones is right... It's a bald man going down on someone...

They future generations are going to tear it down.

Maybe the real problem is that we desperately need sexually celebratory statues.

It looks like it came out of Silent Hill

Why didnt anyone do the grand babies hair? Look like she rolled out of bed smh.

"The Embrace will stand the test of time" ....yes, it will still be in the city dump when all the old cereal boxes and milk jugs have long since deteriorated....

Art is risky. If you don't take risks, it's not art. There will always be people who have to let us know what they think is ugly. Admittedly, I wasn't sure what I thought about it either, but I didn't go online and say nasty things about it either. Now that I've looked at it from many different angles, I see the artists intent and the beauty of the intertwined arms. It looks like love.

All artists have to be tough as there will always be naysayers. Freedom is being able to create a life work, share it with others and for others to love it, like it or not. It's one of the things that makes this country great.

It will be tagged by next week.

Some art takes time to appreciate. It also takes imagination and some intelligence.

That has got to be the gaudiest thing I’ve ever seen 😳 next week they will admit it was all a joke 😂🤣

*MY QUESTION IS WHY DID HE MAKE THE STATUE WITHOUT THEIR FACES.*

Can Humans be Tamed? We need to develop ourselves as human beings beyond our animate level of existence, and it is possible with a certain kind of education. Developing ourselves as human beings means learning and balancing ourselves with the integral laws of nature operating on our lives. If we learn how to positively connect among each other in human society, with altruistic attitudes replacing our current egoistic attitudes, we then develop ourselves beyond the animate level of existence and become human beings in the fullest sense of the term. First, we need to provide for our animate lives, giving our physical bodies the food, sex and family that they require, then after taking care of those essentials, we can begin our human development. We then need to learn who and what we are, where we are from, why we exist, how we can develop ourselves, how we can control our human development, what our attitude to our surrounding society should be, what society’s attitude should be toward us, and how we can develop together harmoniously, i.e. us in relation to society, and society in relation to us. We need to supply ourselves with this development that will make us human beings. Unfortunately, I see nobody understanding what it means to develop a human being, and we thus fail to realize such a process. One of the outcomes of our lack of development into human beings is our inability to understand the younger generation. We become increasingly detached from them, and do not know what will happen with them or how to guide them in a beneficial direction. We thus let life unfold as it does, into a proliferation of problems and crises. Very simply, we need to learn what nature wants from us, and to develop in order to balance with nature’s demands toward us. If we meet those demands, we can then build a harmonious and peaceful world, one that is in balance with nature.

I like this statue, very well done and beautiful. (from Sandi)