A neighbor sent this email about a sculpture in Prospect Park near PPW and Fifth Street.

I swear to God, I LOVE modern art. I love post-modern art. I just don’t like that ugly white set of tentacles that they stuck in Prospect Park along PPW near Fifth Street. They put it there last fall with a sign saying that it would be there through December.

OK it’s the end of January, time to go!! That space is unusable now because of that hideous creature. Not that too many people would use it now anyway because of the weather, but before The Blob was placed there, on nice days it was a great place for a quick picnic, to read a book under a tree, to play catch with your kid, to throw a Frisbee with a friend, admire the beautiful garden that that nice lady tends there every spring and summer.

Now it’s just creepy. It looks like they left it over from when they filmed the remake of War of the Worlds in the Slope. (Remember the end where they get to Boston but actually it’s our brownstones??) The park should be a place to appreciate nature, not this manmade abstract structure. Or, OK, maybe if it was green and graceful, it might be OK. But it doesn’t fit in in anyway and it’s such a small space, why does it have to be mucked up with such a big thing? I might like it if it were, say, installed on the plaza in front of the Brooklyn Museum but I just can’t wait for it to be removed.

Thanks for listening… I suppose you get cranks complaining to you about art in public places all the time.