The new Rose Garden sculpture

Floor Frame, 1962

Its nice but underscaled.

The renovated Rose Garden. It’s ok. She added a walkway and moved the trees to another part of the grounds.

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Rofl! What the fuck iis it??

It looks like a piece broke off the White House roof.

All I see is Carrie's hand.

Rose Garden

Melania has good taste in art.

“It cost me hundreds of thousands of pounds.”

“Oh, well in that case its fabulous.”

I saw this on CNN.com and knew it would end up on DL. Regardless of my personal feelings about the "sculpture" (big quotes), someone is bound to trip over it at some point. This was a passive aggressive choice by Melania two months before she never steps foot in the White House again, though. People will be careful to criticize a sculpture by a minority...she's played this well.

Looks like someone didn't scoop up after their giant dog dropped turds on the sidewalk.

Already a thread, Tojo.

And you missed the best part: OANN fabricated a quote from him, from the dead.

The change to the rose garden was a restoration to an earlier plan. It’s fitting that it was made more historically accurate.

Melania Trump on Friday announced that a work by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi would be installed in the White House Rose Garden, a gift to the national collection that would be the first work by an Asian-American artist to be included in it.

The sculpture, Noguchi’s 1962 “Floor Frame,” highlights “the beautiful contributions of Asian-American artists to the landscape of our country,” Ms. Trump said in a statement.

Noguchi, one of the most acclaimed modern American artists, became a political activist after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, working to combat racism and raise awareness of the patriotism of Japanese-Americans and voluntarily spending time in an Arizona relocation center.

Brett Littman, the director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, Queens, described the placement of the sculpture in the White House’s Rose Garden as a milestone.

“Unfortunately it comes at a complicated moment,” he said, citing the election. “But the key for us is that this will be on display in perpetuity at the White House. Administrations come and go, but artwork remains. We do feel proud, and we think Noguchi would feel proud as well.”

Noguchi, who was born in Los Angeles and died in 1988, viewed the black patina and bronze piece, which was cast in two parts, as the intersection of a tree and the ground. It reflects the qualities of both an implied root system and the canopy of a tree, Ms. Trump’s office said in a statement.

President Trump, unlike his predecessors, has at times declined to unequivocally condemn the internment camps that Noguchi spent time in. Asked in 2015, before he was elected, whether he would have supported the internment of Japanese-Americans, he responded: “I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer.”

Noguchi’s time in the Arizona relocation center was explored by the Noguchi Museum in an exhibition, “Self-Interned, 1942” in 2017. Noguchi’s sculptures, some made during his detention, were accompanied by letters and documents that shed light on his failed efforts to humanize the camps. The New York Times critic Jason Farago called the exhibition both “illuminating” and “dispiritingly relevant.”

Noguchi had been exempt from an executive order that enabled the military to round up Japanese-Americans in California, Oregon and Washington State, as he lived in New York.

But he had aimed during his time there to redesign the Poston War Relocation Center near the Arizona-California border, the largest of the camps. Instead of a place defined by its barbed wire enclosures, he envisioned a school, community center, botanical garden and even a miniature golf course in one blueprint, though his grand plan never came to pass. This work was up for auction at Sotheby’s in March and was purchased by the White House Historical Association, a private, nonprofit organization that gifted the sculpture to the White House.

“While powerful in its own right, Floor Frame is humble in scale, and complements the authority of the Oval Office,” the White House said in a statement.

^^Bull! It's Trump drowning in the swamp of his actions/inactions

Her new tennis pavilion is ok.

That's exactly the first thing that came to mind, r11; two random piles of dogshit.

[quote] Melania has good taste in art.

Said no one ever.

Not a great piece. Excusing what she did to the garden on the basis of "historic accuracy" is ludicrous. The garden was a compendium of other first families contributions and much more interesting than what appears to be a course for lawn bowling.

Noguchi did many sculptures that are to be placed outside, this is not one of them, hence the title. The platform created for it looks terrible and does not fit the setting nor the work. The White House has access to borrow art from the Smithsonian Museums, which is fitting for the turn over of the occupants and the ability to change things up for each elected official. They could have easily borrowed works from the Hirshorn, Smithsonian Museum of American Museum or even possibly the National Gallery. Instead money was spent on this from auction and is now a permanent part of the White House collection.

The big story is—she’s not wearing fuck me pumps! What’s with the flat shoes?

[quote] What’s with the flat shoes?

Barron hid them.

Do we think Mr. Miyagi will be mad if we bury it under the soon to be redone Biden rose garden

It should be moved to a more suitable location. It does not look right there under that magnolia tree.

R20 here again, this is a Nougchi much more fitting for the White House rose garden then the other piece. It is owned by the National Gallery of Art and is not currently on view, so it would have benefited both organizations being put on display. It is made to be displayed outside unlike the other piece and again the National Gallery of Art is very limited in what it can display outside. There is a problem with this piece though, it was given by the Sackler family, which of course has been under scrutiny for their opioid scandal. They have been targeted for their Art donations to museums, much of it being Asian Art and many have demanded that museums cut ties with the family and their funding.

R20 Again, this is what the Smithsonian Museum of American Art owns, which is on display, but again would have looked lovely in a garden setting. It looks to be the only one they own, and being stone, the bronze piece would be a welcome addition to their collection to transfer the piece from the White House.

The Rose Garden has gone totally minimalist. Bunny Mellon is spinning in her grave.

Has she gone blonde now? Getting ready for dating?

Also thought it was a giant doggie do but that was after I thought that the tree trunk was the art R11 lol

Who gifted it? Probably didn't want it.

Put it on a waist high pedestal out of the way, it looks stupid laying on the ground or even a low pedestal

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R26, that's a beautiful outdoor sculpture, though I'm not sure it would really fit in the very traditional/ classical setting of the Rose Garden. Perhaps an offset Meditation Garden.

It's way better than the doogie doo memorial.

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She's so happy to leave in 2 months, i hope new york shuns her

R34 Are they coming back to NYC? Trump changed his official residence from New York to Florida, and they’re definitely not coming to NYC in January.

Where will Barron go to school? I assume if they are leaving he would start a new school in January after winter break? So Melania, the kid and her family may decamp during Christmas, leaving Trump to ramble around the house until January 20th wrecking havoc.

Truthfully, I don’t remember the last time Dump was in NY. Maybe when he visited his brother?

I love Noguchi but this seems rather an odd choice. I would think her taste leans more to Keane or Thomas Kincaide.

That art looks like pieces of shit piled up.

Couldnt they get something more significant?

Maybe the Noguchi museum is having some fun with a piece that is called dogturd in japanese.

R35 Baron and Melania spend most their time with her parents at their house in Potomac, which is close to Baron's school. Since Baron is special needs, Melania will probably stay in Potomac until Baron can finish up the school year.

It is spelled Barron with Two Rs, named by Melania after his real father John Barron.

r42 It's pretty obvious he's a Drumpf

R43 Really. I could've sworn....

It’s a beautiful, tasteful addition to the rose garden. So obviously, the trumps didn’t choose it.

It's awful - are we making it a sculpture garden or a Rose garden? It's a horrible selection in scale and its base is too large and inharmonious to the rest.

I can't believe any of you like this THERE at THAT SPOT. In a gallery - maybe I would reconsider.

The garden looks better now

Melania is a grifting cynical cunty ex-whore with conservative politics. I did laugh and give her points when she said Fuck to being forced to be a Frau overly invested in Christmas decor. And she was correct that Trump being such an air sucking ingrate, her own role was never going to be other than damned if you do, damned if you don't. And she didn't!

The tennis pavilion and new maintenance building are indeed nice. I'm glad she had them match the White House.

The tennis pavilion and the rose garden were all created so that the Trumps could use and enjoy them for another 4 years.

Oh, well

That's got to be the most underwhelming display of art ever. Since Melania and Donald are involved there must be some sort of scam or money laundering involved.

If Jill Biden or Michelle revealed this sculpture you people would be ALL OVER IT!

My preferred Noguchi

^ Mine too. Like big deck, but can only stan so much yellink in femily quarter.

This whore doesn't know a thing about art.

It's insulting that she is allowed to make any changes to the American White House.

Jill needs to come in and knock it all down.

Get rid of everything that whore did.

No, R52. I would say the same thing, regardless of which First Lady arranged this atrocity. The sculpture is unattractive, does not fit the environs and is horribly displayed.

I think Melania is privately giggling to herself foisting the dog doo display on Americans. She probably cares about the Rose Garden as much as she does Christmas displays at the White House.

The other posters here are correct - it looks like giant dog turds. Leave it to Melanie to further desecrate the White House. She's got to be doing this on purpose, right? She can't possibly be that devoid of taste, can she? I mean, even former Slovenian escorts have some sense of taste. Right?

She's trolling everyone and has been for years.