I don’t think this a bad sculpture. It’s not a permanent installation, so the question whether it belongs with the other historical law-givers isn’t all that important. And yet, it does highlight the absence of female law-givers in history. One has been imagined, and it suggests that female law-giving would be something quasi-religious — rising out of a lotus, hair spiraling demonically. And yet the male law-givers on the building are religious — Moses, Confucius, Zoroaster, and the no-longer-there Muhammad.

[Maybe I’m just so used to bad art that I’ve gotten inured to it. I thought at first it might be Medusa. Whatever it is, it’s not the equivalent of Moses, Confucious, Zoroaster, or Mohammed, but as Ann argues, that might be the point. — Ed]