Art: Emerging

It seems like every decision made regarding the new Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn, from the horribly banal logo of the Nets (the NBA team for whom it was built) to the “artistically” rust-encased building itself, is uncomfortably upsetting or just, to put it more succinctly, wrong.  The latest incarnation of this theme is the new 10,000-pound, 20-foot-tall bronze sculpture by Ursula VonRydingsvard that has been permanently installed on the plaza in front of the Center.  It is inexplicably entitled “Ona” (the Polish word for “she”) but, of course, a variety of alternatives has been coined.  The most fitting being “Turd:  Emerging” and I’m afraid that is now permanently installed in the rust-encased plaza that is my own mind.