Madoff Messed With the Bull...

Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP

Uh oh, it's bad luck to walk under a Ponzi schemer! Chinese artist Chen Wenling has created this sculptured masterpiece entitled "What You See Might Not Be Real" (or as we like to call it: MadBull). Yes, that man pinned to the wall is jailed financier Bernard Madoff. The piece is currently on display at a gallery in Beijing, China, but we have high hopes that one day it will take the place of the Wall Street Bull.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on September 30, 2009 3:43 PM

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Mr. Shankly

Devil horns by themselves antisemitic? Really? That never would have occurred to me until mentioned here.

JenChungsBaby

You never heard the old myth that Jews have horns.

Looks like that bull got himself a terrorist butt bomb.

Rocknrope

Yeah, part of me thinks it's people being too sensitive, as I've heard several comparisons to Madoff being described as "the devil" and "rotting in hell" by his victims, other jews. I guess as he was such a prominent jew, people are reading more into it.

NannyState

Should be in the foyer at the Justice Department, next to the topless "Blind Justice" with the blue curtain.

valeriob

this is totez awesome

matty

This is really good fart. I mean art!

DanielJ

Wish it looked a little more like the actual Madoff. And yeah the devil horns on the Jew is a bit off-putting.

ANGRYGOD11

Wall Street never nailed Madoff.

Wall Street made Madoff possible.

Manitoba2

The location of the shoes, and the propulsion fart make little sense.

Plus, as little as I may like Madoff and his schemes, seeing a an identifiably Jewish man with devil horns makes me uncomfortable - I could have done without that touch.

I'd like to see someone install a bear on Wall Street, behind the bull, making the bull its biatch.