Times Square Arts installed a new statue of a 12-foot-tall Black woman in casual clothing, juxtaposing it against the permanent monuments of a chaplain and playwright.

Thomas J. Price's Black woman statue in Times Square is receiving both praise and backlash, with some Black women even criticizing it.

On X, viral posts about Thomas J. Price's sculpture Grounded in the Stars (2023), a 12-foot-tall statue of a Black woman now on view in Times Square, have labeled the work a sign of a "very sick society" and a harbinger of the "death of civilization.