A county council in South Carolina has decided not to give the state’s Hispanic Alliance a grant to market a temporary art installation praised by some as culturally enriching but decried by others as pornographic.
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After weeks of heated debate among elected leaders and members of the community, Greenville County Council members refused Tuesday to award a $7,500 grant to promote the Wings of the City sculpture exhibit.
The decision came after several speakers at Tuesday s meeting offered starkly contrasting assessments of the nine bronze sculptures by acclaimed Mexican artist Jorge MarÍn that were placed in Falls Park and the Peace Center in April. Their comments met with both applause and jeers from different groups in the council chambers at County Square.
Carolyn Watson, a retired art history professor at Furman University, described one of the sculptures as an avatar of a bloodthirsty deity.
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