Last year Berkeley paid realist artist Scott Donahue "$196,000 to install two sculptural groups at either end of a new pedestrian bridge across the freeway on the city’s waterfront." Donahue came up with a works depicting angry protesters, oak grove tree sitters, Critical Mass, and scenes from public parks -- namely, dogs shitting, fucking, and ass-sniffing.

While an aghast Matier & Ross were too shy to publish the poop pics, Zombietime has all the gory details.

The vocal minority are perturbed by said sculpture. Of course. But in an area torn between Diego Riveraesque murals or marble angels lifting dead soldiers to heaven (Bay Area art-as-politics ideology is almost always misguided and unappealing), we find this shit to be refreshing.

What do you think?