Public art - Tom Tenney https://www.tomtenney.com Words, Radio, Sound, Art Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:37:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.tomtenney.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cropped-tt_favicon-150x150.png Public art - Tom Tenney https://www.tomtenney.com 32 32 Wall of Lies https://www.tomtenney.com/2020/12/11/wall-of-lies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wall-of-lies Sat, 12 Dec 2020 02:46:00 +0000 http://tomtenney.com/?p=1518 In fall of 2020, in the weeks before the presidential election, I collaborated with visual artist Phil Buehler on the “Wall of Lies,” a 50-foot by 10-foot outdoor mural with the 20,000+ lies told by Donald Trump while in office, documented and fact-checked by The Washington Post. The piece was originally shown in Bushwick, Brooklyn, […]

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]]> In fall of 2020, in the weeks before the presidential election, I collaborated with visual artist Phil Buehler on the “Wall of Lies,” a 50-foot by 10-foot outdoor mural with the 20,000+ lies told by Donald Trump while in office, documented and fact-checked by The Washington Post. The piece was originally shown in Bushwick, Brooklyn, at 12 Grattan Street.

On Sunday October 4th, the wall was visited by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who also agreed to sit for an interview with me during the on-air live broadcast on Radio Free Brooklyn I was doing at the site at the time of his arrival.

In the overnight hours of October 7-8, the Wall of Lies was vandalized with Pro-Trump and white supremacist slogans, including “Vote Trump or Die” and “Stand Back and Stand By.” The latter was a phrase, directed at the white supremacist group Proud Boys, uttered by Donald Trump during the first 2020 presidential debate, and subsequently adopted by the group as a rallying cry. Rather than backing down, Phil and I launched a gofundme campaign to have the wall resurrected.

We raised enough money to create a second wall 100 feet long—twice as long as the original—at the corner of Lafayette and Grand Streets in lower Manhattan.

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