Muskegon Stealing Sterling Heights Golden Butthole?
Is Muskegon trying to copy Sterling Heights most famous piece of art? Back in 2019 a $300,000 35 foot tall art installation was placed on M-59 to promote the “Golden Corridor” in Sterling Heights. Immediately it became a very popular item with a highly controversial nickname “The Golden Butthole” – folks even tried to make it a ride at the 2019 Sterlingfest…remember?
So imagine our show – OUTRAGE at Muskegon trying to slide in a wooden butthole and think we wouldn’t notice? Oh the shame. What do you see? It’s Sterling Heights butthole…stay in your lane Muskegon.
The City of Muskegon is using the present to honor the city’s past and promote the future.
A new-empty plot of land along Lakeshore Drive will look much different in less than a year, boasting a 45-feet wide, 41-feet tall rusted ring.
Artist Lee Brown is calling it the PORTAL.
Muskegon City Public Art Initiative (MCPAI)
“The cross-section as an isosceles triangle, and then it’s just swept into this big circle,” Brown explained to FOX 17 Monday. “It looks like it just dropped out of the sky and planted itself.”
Helping plant the portal is Judith Haynes, Project Director with the Muskegon City Public Art Initiative (MCPAI), which began in 2018.
“(We) felt that, by adding 10 new works of monumentally scaled works of public art, we would really impact the community in a pretty significant way,” Haynes said.
The initiative has seen the completion of seven installations so far. You might recognize some of them — Moxie the Mastodon outside the Lakeshore Museum Center, and the giant water drop outside the VanDyk Mortgage Convention Center downtown.
Now I’m thinking back to all the good times we had that year with the art installation (which is pretty cool looking btw) – remember all this?
Will the art installation in Muskegon have this level of parody?
Or it’s own digital billboard?
