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Updated · Yahoo News Canada · Nov 10Golden Trump Statue Appears in Washington, Mocking 5 Vietnam Bone Spurs Deferments
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo News Canada · Nov 10Summary
- A golden statue of Donald Trump titled “The Foot Soldier” appeared in Washington on Nov. 9, one day before Veterans Day.
- The work targets Trump’s military record, invoking the bone spurs that kept him out of Vietnam service.
- The anonymous collective The Secret Handshake claimed the installation; the group has previously used similar sculptures to ridicule the president.
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How did an anonymous art collective manage to bypass federal security to install a large golden sculpture on the National Mall? What does the rise of unauthorized guerrilla installations reveal about the evolving boundaries of modern public art? How does the addition of interactive performance characters reshape the traditional impact of stationary protest art?