{"id":42412,"date":"2024-12-19T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T01:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=42412"},"modified":"2024-12-24T20:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:40:20","slug":"mayors-goodman-honored-with-mortifying-statue-and-nobodys-talking-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/mayors-goodman-honored-with-mortifying-statue-and-nobodys-talking-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayors Goodman “Honored” With Mortifying Statue and Nobody’s Talking About It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Art is subjective, but a recently-unveiled statue “honoring” former Las Vegas mayors Oscar and Carolyn Goodman is objectively worse than being jabbed in the eye with a syringe full of molten lava.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas is known to have aggressively awful public art, but this trainwreck makes the Goodmans, mayors of Las Vegas for a quarter century between them (he did 12 years, she did 13), look like Colonel Sanders and Fiona from “Shrek.”<\/p>\n

The artist responsible for this disrespectful disaster, Brian Hanlon, should be forced to refund the $750,000 he was paid, the sculpture should be scrapped and some elementary school kid should make a new one because it would have to be better than this clusterfailery.<\/p>\n

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Congrats to whoever these people are.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 11-foot-tall statue of Oscar and Carolyn Goodman was first revealed Nov. 26, 2024 at Las Vegas City Hall.<\/p>\n

There was a lot of hoopla.<\/p>\n

We can only imagine the crowd in attendance was as stupefied as we were when first saw this monumental hot mess. Apparently, nobody said anything, presumably because the Goodmans are beloved and the unveiling was all about showing respect and appreciation for their years of public service.<\/p>\n

We love and respect the Goodmans, too, which is why we’ll say it: They deserve better.<\/p>\n

Carolyn Goodman is unrecognizable in this pitiful attempt at art.<\/p>\n

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Carolyn Goodman is arguably the most patient woman in the world. Hence, her not complaining publicly about this travesty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oscar Goodman’s likeness is a little bit better, but not by a lot.<\/p>\n

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Oscar Goodman’s middle name is Baylin. Hopefully, the City will be bailin’ on this artist in the future.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Presumably, it’s a better approximation to Oscar Goodman because the artist has had some practice with Oscar Goodman. Hanlon did another sculpture<\/a> of Oscar Goodman on display at the Historic Fifth Street School, wherever that might actually be.<\/p>\n

Somebody should’ve raised a red flag about commissioning Hanlon for this gig as he was responsible for another botched sculpture of Oscar Goodman inside Oscar’s Steakhouse at Plaza.<\/p>\n

It’s as if Hanlon does all his sculpting with a Shake Weight while riding on a commercial airliner during heavy turbulence while wearing a blindfold.<\/p>\n

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This sculpture depicts Goodman with murderer Anthony Spilotro. We crop that part of the statue out so as to not glorify douchebaggery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seriously, this drawing on the wall of Oscar’s looks more like Oscar than the statue at City Hall.<\/p>\n

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This would sell for $7.6 million at Christie’s auction house. Related: Needs a banana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hanlon also did the Jerry Tarkanian statue<\/a> at UNLV. Also a bust, but Tarkanian’s face is partially covered with a towel to avoid people noticing what a dud it is.<\/p>\n

As if Hanlon knew his work would be deemed “peak suck,” he did an interview with the local news, explaining, “We had six months to do a sculpture that takes 18 months to build.” Honestly, it looks like it.<\/p>\n

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