But maybe memorials shouldn't be artistic, Blake Gopnik writes
(NEWSER) - Take a look at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial unveiled today, and one thing is immediately obvious: The famous black activist is white. To be precise, he’s more pinkish and “blush-colored,” carved from stone bearing “a striking resemblance to pale, freckled skin,” writes Blake Gopnik at the Daily Beast . And that’s not the memorial’s only fault: It’s too small, it was carved by a Chinese artist , and as such, “its Communist roots show clearly” in that it “isn’t so much monumental as overbearing and ponderous.” More»