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Street Artists Invade La Brea Tar Pits to Portray GOP Establishment As Extinct Elephants

John Bickley
Street Artists Invade La Brea Tar Pits to Portray GOP Establishment As Extinct Elephants

Los Angeles-based street artist Sabo has done it again. His latest subversive art installation involved infiltrating the La Brea Tar Pits on Sunday and transforming a set of mammoth statues into a subversive allegory about the “Establishment GOP.”

As the following images show, Sabo—a controversial artist whose edgy work has been described as both brilliant and “vandalism”—turned the park’s sculptures of three mammoths into a loaded dramatization of the “sinking” Republican establishment (the complete series of shots are available at Nerds for Cruz).

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