All The Places We Would Put The Terrible “Cry Baby Cry” Statue, Now That Development Is Stalled 

The Cry Baby statue will no longer live at Cry Baby Hill.

From News 9: “Future of statue project now uncertain: The “Cry Baby Cry” statue is nearly complete. The statue was set to be a companion piece intended for the hotel site, but with no hotel to accompany it, the city is considering other locations for the installation.” (Emphasis ours.)

First of all, “The ‘Cry Baby Cry’ statue is nearly complete” sounds like a threat. Second of all, this got our big gorgeous brains thinking: where would we, The Pickup, put this magnificent piece of $250,000 art if we had our way? 

Here’s where we would put it:  

The Philbrook Gardens 

This is the obvious answer. Who wouldn’t want to see A.I. art inside the city’s finest art garden? Cry Baby Cry could be acquired easily by Philbrook, as Ken Kelleher is certainly desperate to have at least one of his “creations” (let’s use this term loosely) find a physical home. Imagine walking out of a swirling, labyrinthine, Italianate swath of tulips, only to see Cry Baby Cry’s singular idiotic face. And hell, isn’t Crystal Bridges currently showing a KAWS exhibition? Why not let all of our legacy art institutions sell out to dumb corporate slop? 

–Z.B. Reeves