SERGIO FURNARI: GOD GAVE ME PERMISSION

Permit from who? Who's gotta

give me a permit if today I

wanna write a song or sculpt a 

rose? ... God gave me permission.

- Sergio Furnanri 

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New York City sculptor Sergio Furnari is being raked over the coals online over his plan to unveil a memorial sculpture of slain right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk in Times Square.

“God gave me permission,” Sergio Furnari, the NYC sculptor behind the design, told Hyperallergic about his unsanctioned and widely decried work.

Flurries of crude jokes and punchlines riffing off Kirk’s political beliefs and the manner of his killing have piled up across Furnari’s posts, continuing to push the boundaries of what is and isn’t protected by free speech.

Read more at hyperallergic.com.
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Image: Sergio Furnari with his sculpture of Charlie Kirk (photo Sergio Furnari)

Image 2: top: The genre of comments on Sergio Furnari’s Instagram posts about his Charlie Kirk memorial (edit Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic, screenshots via Instagram); bottom: Additional comments trolling Furnari’s Kirk statue posts on Instagram (screenshot via Instagram)